Τριηραύλης
warship-piper
Translated by David Whitehead6 Nov 2002Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
A noun.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τριηραύλης· ὄνομα.
Betacode
*trihrau/lhs: o)/noma.
Notes
- Used (of a slave called Phormion) by Demosthenes 18.129. The word appears to be his coinage; elsewhere 'piper' alone sufficed.
cf. generally tau 974, tau 975, tau 977.
References
L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 304, 309
Linked from3 entries
- τ973Τριηκόντορος ναῦςthirty-oared ship[no gloss]
- τ974Τριηραρχεῖνto be a trierarchAlso [sc. attested is the related noun] trierarchy, an expensive liturgy in Athens. For it was necessary that a trireme have everything ready for war, and making these preparations was the task of the man appointed to…
- τ975Τριηράρχημαtrierarch's expenseThe expenditure on a trierarchy; and additional trierarch's expense [epitrierarchema], is what is spent after the time of the trierarchy.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 25 Jul 2011
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead