I imagine, only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet raised on them protected the rowers in a great degree against missile weapons from the decks of the enemy's galleys, but the open or grated bottom gave passage for weapons from... De bello Peloponnesiaco libri 8 - Pagina 466di Thucydides - 1838Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| William Mitford - 1822 - 408 pagine
...may carry with it sufficiently its own explanation. I suppose the lateral galleries of the gallies to have been open at bottom, or at most to have had only gratings ; their purpose having been, as 1 imagine, only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet raised on them, protected... | |
| William Mitford - 1829 - 520 pagine
...may carry with it sufficiently its own explanation. I suppose the lateral galleries of the galleys to have been open at bottom, or at most to have had only gratings ; their purpose having been, as I imagine, only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet raised on them protected... | |
| Thucydides - 1829 - 508 pagine
...of sculpture in the Vatican museum at Rome. These lateral galleries of the vessels," he supposes, " to have been open at bottom, or, at most, to have had only gratings, their purpose (he thinks) having been only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet, raised on... | |
| Thucydides - 1829 - 522 pagine
...of sculpture in the Vatican museum at Rome. These lateral galleries of the vessels," he supposes, " to have been open at bottom, or, at most, to have had only gratings, their purpose (he thinks) having been only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet, raised on... | |
| William Mitford - 1835 - 424 pagine
...may carry with it sufficiently its own explanation. I suppose the lateral galleries of the galleys to have been open at bottom, or at most to have had only gratings ; their purpose having been, as I imagine, only to give projection and purchase to the upper oars. A parapet, raised on them, protected... | |
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