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πηδάλιον. As a rule a Greek ship had two steering oars at the stern, ‘fastened to the sides just below the gunwale’; but in the ‘barides’, the ‘steering oar passed through the after end of the keel’ (Torr, pp. 74-5).

ἱστῷ: it was not usual to find acacia wood of sufficient length for a mast; but cf. Theophrastus, u. s.

οὐ δύναται: H. is quite right in saying that the vessels were not sailed up stream, and in implying that they were usually ‘towed’.

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