Παρεξειρεσίαν
outrigger
Translated by David Whitehead12 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The [sc. part of a ship] outside the rowers.1 Thucydides in [book] four [uses the term].2
Arrian [writes]: "there were some of the oars that they shattered, and they broke off certain [parts] of the outrigger".3
Arrian [writes]: "there were some of the oars that they shattered, and they broke off certain [parts] of the outrigger".3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρεξειρεσίαν· τὸ ἔξω τῶν ἐρεσσόντων. ἐν τετάρτῃ Θουκυδίδης. Ἀρριανός· τῶν μὲν κωπῶν ἔστιν ἃς ξυνέτριψαν, καὶ τῆς παρεξειρεσίας τινὰ ἀπέθραυσαν.
Betacode
*pareceiresi/an: to\ e)/cw tw=n e)resso/ntwn. e)n teta/rth| *qoukudi/dhs. *)arriano/s: tw=n me\n kwpw=n e)/stin a(\s cune/triyan, kai\ th=s pareceiresi/as tina\ a)pe/qrausan.
Notes (3)
- 1See also pi 559. ↩
- 2Thucydides 4.12.1 (where the present entry's accusative case occurs), with scholion. ↩
- 3Arrian, Fragmenta incerta 23 Roos-Wirth (preserved here only). ↩
References
Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 84 with n.34
Linked from2 entries
- π559ΠαρεξειρεσίαςoutriggersIn Thucydides [this means] the [part of a ship] by the prow in front of the oars; as if one were to say the [part] outside the rowing.
- π2390Προεξειρεσίαoutrigger[Meaning a] place of the vessel, in which they do the rowing. "They contrived tholepin-holders on each of the sides and what amounted to outriggers".
Neighbouring entries
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