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Headword:
*pareceiresi/an
Adler number: pi,558
Translated headword: outrigger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [sc. part of a ship] outside the rowers.[1]
Thucydides in [book] four [uses the term].[2]
Arrian [writes]: "there were some of the oars that they shattered, and they broke off certain [parts] of the outrigger".[3]
Greek Original:*pareceiresi/an: to\ e)/cw tw=n e)resso/ntwn. e)n teta/rth| *qoukudi/dhs. *)arriano/s: tw=n me\n kwpw=n e)/stin a(\s cune/triyan, kai\ th=s pareceiresi/as tina\ a)pe/qrausan.
Notes:
[1] See also
pi 559.
[2]
Thucydides 4.12.1 (where the present entry's accusative case occurs), with scholion.
[3] Arrian,
Fragmenta incerta 23 Roos-Wirth (preserved here only).
Reference:
Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 84 with n.34
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 March 2010@06:24:48.
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