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[425] ἀείραντες, ‘raising it;’ for when not in use the mast lay horizontally, resting in the “ἱστοδόκη”, with its head over the vessel's stern: as soon as it is hauled up, it is naturally made fast by the forestays (“πρότονοι”).

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