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Headword:
*proeceiresi/a
Adler number: pi,2390
Translated headword: outrigger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] place of the vessel, in which they do the rowing.
"They contrived tholepin-holders on each of the sides and what amounted to outriggers".[1]
Greek Original:*proeceiresi/a: tou= ploi/ou to/pos, e)n w(=| e)re/ttousi. kwpwth=ras de\ e)f' e(kate/rais pleurai=s kai\ oi(=on proeceiresi/as tina\s e)mhxanh/santo.
Note:
[1] A loose approximation of
Agathias,
Histories 5.21.8, which (
inter alia) actually contains not the present headword
proeceiresi/as, otherwise unattested, but
pareceiresi/as (for which see already
pi 558,
pi 559). For 'thole-pin holders' see L. Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 84 n.33, 87 n.51. On the reed boats built by the Kotrigur Huns for an amphibious attack on the Thracian Chersonese (the modern-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf.
chi 215) in 559 CE, see also
alpha 1017,
epsilon 85,
epsilon 1506,
epsilon 2572,
epsilon 3167,
kappa 2274, and Frendo (158).
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 March 2010@07:54:34.
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