The voyage and shipwreck of St. Paul, with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients (1880)
Smith, James, 1782-1867, Smith, Walter Edward, ed · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 270
igures in Breydenbach.^ If any of my readers have tried to heave a cutter to, with hersquare-sail set and kept aback, they will understand this ;—haud inex-pertus loquor. 2 Taken from a coin in the Museum at Avignon, by the author. ^ The modern practice of using canvas bands is, perhaps, no… … 202 ON THE SHIPS OF THE ANCIENTS. In one of the coins of the Emperor Commodus,representing a wheat-ship, we have this mode ofstrengthening the sails clearly expressed.^ The sail at the stern (o KaToiriv) is called by Pollux,* epidromus {sTrihpofjLos) ; and by Hesychius, * pharos,
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