Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aperta Navis, Aphractus

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Aphractus

（ἄφρακτος ναῦς), called also navis

Aphractus.

aperta. A ship which had no deck, but was merely covered with planks in the fore and after part, as is represented in the following cut, taken from a coin of Corcyra.

The ships which had decks were called κατάφρακτοι, and tectae or stratae. See Navis.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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