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[782] τροπός is equivalent to the old Lat. ‘struppus,’ and our ‘strap.’ It is the leathern loop fixed at the gunwale, in which the oar works. Cp. Thucyd. 2. 93, with interpretation: “τροπωτῆρες, οἱ ἱμάντες οἱ ἐν τοῖς πλοίοις ἐν οἷς αἱ κῶπαι περὶ τοὺς σκαλμοὺς περιδέονται”. The modern Greek boatman still uses a similar loop to fasten his oar to the thole. See Leake's Attica, p. 139.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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