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Headword: *)amfipru/mnais
Adler number: alpha,1756
Translated headword: double-sterned
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A type of ships. "He prepared to enter the Istros[1] again in those of his ships which were double-sterned".[2]
Greek Original:
*)amfipru/mnais: ei)=dos ploi/wn. e)/mpalin dielqei=n pareskeu/ase to\n *)/istron e)n tai=s a)mfipru/mnais tw=n new=n.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
[1] The Greek name for the lower Danube; see OCD(4) p.749, s.v. Ister.
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 21 Blockley. According to LSJ s.v. (web address 1), "double-sterned" means "with rudder behind and before"; but even if for their "rudder" we understand "pair of steering-oars" (on which see generally e.g. L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 224-8), this is not how ancient ships were constructed. So the present "double-sterned" vessels were perhaps like the ones which, according to Polyaenus 3.11.14, the Athenian general Chabrias (chi 1) used in the mid C4 BCE: with a second pair of steering oars, for rough water.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 August 2000@14:04:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 3 March 2001@10:32:54.
Catharine Roth (added link and keywords) on 27 July 2002@11:54:04.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 28 July 2002@05:36:09.
Nicholas Fincher (Added note) on 6 July 2003@06:29:00.
David Whitehead on 6 July 2003@09:08:42.
David Whitehead (modified and expanded n.2; added a keyword) on 12 October 2006@07:28:08.
David Whitehead (updated a reference) on 3 January 2012@04:38:47.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 21 February 2012@06:22:58.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@05:40:05.

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