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[111] Almost all Phaeacian names are taken from circumstances of seafaring life, with the exception of Alcinous, Arete, Laodamus, Polybus, and Rhexenor. Πρῳρεύς is properly the ‘look-out man’ who passes the word to the steerer; yet it probably has no such special significance here, but, like Ποντεύς and Πρυμνεύς, is derived at haphazard from sea-terms. The etymology of Ναυβολίδης would seem to be “βολίς”, a plummet for sounding.

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

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