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Title: Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747
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Publisher: Edinburgh Stirling & Slade
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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TRIREMIS PRISCÆ EFFIGIES
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Of the Military Affairs of Greece. 125
which were of a form betwixt the ships of war and burdcn, being
exceeded by the latter in capaciousness, by the former in length.
There was likewise another difference amongst these ships; for
men of war, though not wholly destitute of sails, were chiefly
rowed with oars, that they might be the more able to tack about
upon any advantage, and approach the enemy on his weakest
side ; whereas, vessels governed by sails, being left to the mercy
of the winds, could not be managed by so steady a conduct;
hence the ships of war were usually styled ἐπίκωποι, and κωπήρ.
Ships of burden were comnmonly governed with sails, and those of
transports often towed wilh cords : not but that in both these all
these three ways of govermnent, viz. by sail, oar, and cords, were
upon occasion made use of.
Ships of war are said to have been first rigged out by Parhalus,
or Samyres; as others, by Semiramis ; but according to some ^z, by
Ægæon.

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