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 279
P 2IO ON THE SHIPS OF THE ANCIENTS. in ancient anchors ; in fact, the description corre-sponds exactly with the anchors of the Romans.Modern writers de re nauticd tell us that the anchorsof the ancients were without stocks : ^ this is one ofthose traditional blunders which have been handeddown from… … of Antoninus Pius,^ which will show how perfectly itresembles the modern anchors. The next point which requires elucidation in ourpresent inquiry is the mode of undergirding the ships.Here also we have to clear away a considerable massof error, resting in a great measure on the remarks ofa…
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