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Headword: *(/erma
Adler number: epsilon,3021
Translated headword: ballast
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Arrian [writes]: "and [they] putting ballast into the stern, so as to raise the bow up high, as the ship was weighted down at the stern."[1]
*(/erma also [means] security.
"[...] that the places were safe because of the solidity of the stronghold."[2]
Greek Original:
*(/erma: *)arriano/s: e(/rma te ei)s th\n pru/mnan e)nqe/ntes, tou= e)ca=rai e)s u(/yos th\n prw/ran, piezome/nhs kata\ pru/mnan th=s nho/s. *(/erma kai\ h( a)sfa/leia. a)su/lous ei)=nai tou\s xw/rous dia\ to\ e(/rma tou= o)xurw/matos.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 3020, epsilon 3022.
[1] Arrian, Anabasis 2.19.2.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.7.9: see also alpha 4508.
Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 January 2008@00:45:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 6 January 2008@10:42:38.
David Whitehead on 28 October 2012@07:27:10.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 November 2012@23:16:22.
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