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Headword:
Aplousteras
Adler number: alpha,3237
Translated headword: more unprepared for sailing, rather unprepared for sailing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thucydides calls ships this: not those which are altogether unable to sail, but those in a non-sailing condition because they lack a full complement [of men].[1]
Greek Original:Aplousteras: Thoukudidês legei nêas, ou tas aplous pantelôs, alla tas dia plêrômatos endeian aploous histamenas.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Thucydides 7.60.2, where
a)plow/terai (sic) occurs (see web address 1) as a comparative of
a)/ploos (cf.
alpha 3233). Why the Suda converts the scholist's
a)plowte/ras into
a)plouste/ras is unclear.
[1] The full complement was c.200 men: J.S. Morrison and J.F. Coates,
The Athenian Trireme (Cambridge 1986) 107-8.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 March 2001@11:38:20.
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