A type of boat.
Light ships.[1]
"[He] having built thirty-oared runners after the model of Liburnians".[2]
*li/berna: ei)=dos ploi/ou. kara/bia. phca/menos droma/das triakonth/reis *liberni/dwn tu/pw|.
See also
lambda 496, and generally L. Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 141-2: "the liburnian was a fast, two-banked galley adapted from a craft developed among the Liburnians, piratical-minded dwellers of the Dalmatian coast and its offshore islands".
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius lambda293 Theodoridis. For this glossing term,
karabion, cf. under
epsilon 3944.
[2] As Boissonade recognised, this is a contextless fragment of
Eunapius (vol.1 p.264 lines 25-26 Dindorf). It uses the form
libernides rather than the present headword. For "runners" cf. under
epsilon 1937. On the other hand this fragment may have referred to the naval victory of Fravitta over Gainas in 400 CE in the Hellespont. See Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long,
Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993, p. 238.
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