[Meaning] one next to another.[1]
Herodotus [writes]: "the ships were anchored offshore in ranks, 8 ships deep".[2]
*pro/krossai: a)/llh e)p' a)/llh|. *(hro/dotos: ai( de\ nh=es pro/krossai w(rmai/nonto e)s po/nton, e)pi\ n# ne/as.
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. It is the feminine nominative plural of an adjective
pro/krossoi which, outside certain lexica and grammars, occurs only in the plural.
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 14.35, where
prokro/ssas occurs (web address 1).
[2] An approximation of
Herodotus 7.188.1 (web address 2), on the Persian fleet at anchor near Cape Sepias,
Magnesia. (Some of the Suda mss give the numeral, absurdly, as 50.)
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