The Voyage And Shipwreck of St. Paul: With Dissertations On the Sources of the Writings of St ...
The Voyage And Shipwreck of St. Paul: With Dissertations On the Sources of the Writings of St ...
James Smith
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Lon. 1653. OF THE ANTIENTS. 151 sail therefore must have been furled aloft. We hear, indeed, in another part of the same dialogue of ships with three sails (rpiapju^sva*), but we are not told whether they were set upon separate masts, or one above another. From the manner in which they are mentioned, it is obvious that these three- sailed ships were of the largest size ; we must con- clude, therefore, that it was not a common circum- stance to have so many as three principal sails. What may be ...considered, therefore, as the plain sails of an ancient ship consisted of one great square sail, with a small one at the bow. The following figure, taken from the Archaeo- * Lucian has mentioned a circumstance which has perplexed commentators, and which I do not pretend to explain : he speaks of " looking up and counting the piles of hides " (ava' tXewovreQ apiBfiovvTes t(m)v (ivpffwv Tag £Ti€oXac), or rather, of hides placed ahove each other. Scheffer supposes that hy hides the author means sails, which, he says, " ex corio pellihusque L 4 152 ON THE SHIPS I logie Navale of M.
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