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Headword: Herma
Adler number: epsilon,3021
Translated headword: ballast
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Arrian [writes]: "and [they] putting ballast into the stern, so as to raise the bow up high, as the ship was weighted down at the stern."[1]
*(/erma also [means] security.
"[...] that the places were safe because of the solidity of the stronghold."[2]
Greek Original:
Herma: Arrianos: herma te eis tên prumnan enthentes, tou exarai es hupsos tên prôran, piezomenês kata prumnan tês nêos. Herma kai hê asphaleia. asulous einai tous chôrous dia to herma tou ochurômatos.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 3020, epsilon 3022.
[1] Arrian, Anabasis 2.19.2.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.7.9: see also alpha 4508.
Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 January 2008@00:45:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 6 January 2008@10:42:38.
David Whitehead on 28 October 2012@07:27:10.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 November 2012@23:16:22.
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