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Headword:
*)epwti/des
Adler number: epsilon,2848
Translated headword: cat-heads, cheek-pieces, epotides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thucydides [writes]: "and they fastened the cat-heads to the prows, stout ones [...] about 60 cubits [in length], inside and out."[1]
Epotides are the timbers [sc. on a warship] projecting outwards from each side of the prow.[2]
Greek Original:*)epwti/des: *qoukudi/dhs: kai\ ta\s e)pwti/das e)pe/qesan tai=s prw/rais paxei/as w(s e)pi\ c# ph/xeis, e)nto/s te kai\ e)/cwqen. *)epwti/des ei)si\ ta\ e(kate/rwqen prw/ras e)ce/xonta cu/la.
Notes:
See also
epsilon 2849.
L. Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 392 glosses the term as 'forward face of the outrigger' and discusses it (though not this passage of
Thucydides) at 85-86.
[1]
Thucydides 7.36.2, on the Syracusan warships in 413 (here numerically distorted, and hence absurd: not
c' "sixty" but
e(\c "six").
[2] From the
scholia to
Thucydides 7.34.5 (cf. 36.2).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 August 2006@05:31:13.
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