A.floating vessel: hence, generally, ship, A. Th.602, Ag.625, Hdt.1.168, IG12.128.5, etc.: more nearly defined, π. λεπτά small craft, Hdt.7.36, Th.2.83; π. ἁλιευτικόν a fishing-boat, X.An.7.1.20; ἱππαγωγὰ π. transports for horses, Hdt.6.48; π. μακρά ships of war, Id.5.30, Th.1.14; π. στρογγύλα or φορτηγικά ships of burden, merchantmen, X.HG5.1.21; “μεγάλα π.” D.S.13.78; “ἱερὸν π. τοῦ Ὀσείριος” OGI56.51 (Canopus, iii B.C.): when distd. from ναῦς, without Adj., mostly merchant-ship or transport, as opp. ship of war, “τοῖς π. καὶ ταῖς ναυσί” Th.4.116, cf. 6.44; πλεῖν μὴ μακρᾷ νηΐ, ἄλλῳ δὲ κωπήρει πλοίῳ Foed. ap. eund.4.118; “πλοῖά τε καὶ τριήρεις” Pl. Hp.Ma.295d; πλοῖα alone, = τριήρεις, X.HG1.2.1, Docum. ap. D.18.106.
πλοῖον , τό, (πλέω) prop.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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