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 271
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, … and the smallest (cjidpov kol sXaaaov, art. sTrlSpo/jLov).Pliny also mentions that there was a sail at the stern,and we frequently see a mast there, as in the abovefigure ; but I have seen no representation of one witha sail set upon it The next class of sails are the Suppara, or top-sails. Isidore…
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