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Headword: Amphêrikon
Adler number: alpha,1697
Translated headword: sculling
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[He] is sending a sculling skiff".[1]
And Thucydides [writes]: "for a long time they had been in the habit of preparing the opening of the gates [by taking out] a light sculling boat, like pirates, on a wagon."[2]
Greek Original:
Amphêrikon: pempei de skaphidion amphêrikon. kai Thoukudidês: akation amphêrikon hôs lêistai, ek pollou tetherapeukotes tên anoixin tôn pulôn ekomizon to ploion hamaxêi.
Notes:
Sculling means using oars in pairs.
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[2] Thucydides 4.67.3 (imperfectly quoted). See web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 October 2000@20:50:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; added notes; cosmetics) on 16 October 2000@04:37:47.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 18 July 2002@09:15:12.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 25 February 2011@06:28:53.
David Whitehead on 27 February 2011@04:55:25.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 27 January 2012@21:42:38.
David Whitehead on 29 January 2012@07:16:25.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 15 November 2013@10:01:29.
David Whitehead on 20 June 2015@10:32:47.
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