[Meaning] the tip of the [ship's] stern.
Aphlaston: to akron tês prumnês.
From glosses on
Herodotus 6.114, where the word occurs (in the plural). For other instances, beginning with
Homer,
Iliad 15.717, see LSJ s.v.; and see generally Lionel Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) 86 n.49 and passim.
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