[566] ἐπ᾽ ἰκριόφιν … ἀμφιβαλόντες: taking ἴκρια, as in 4. 80, 1663, in its usual Homeric sense of the partial deck of the vessel, the meaning will be that, as the Argo was running before the wind, the κάλωες (= πόδες, 2. 932, the sheet-lines of the square sail) were made fast to pegs or cleats (περόναι) at intervals on both sides of the deck. The Schol. explains ἴκρια as either σανιδώματα, or κέραια, and περόναι as either πάσσαλοι or κρίκοι.
de M., following Cartault, understands by ἴκρια, 'the yard,' and by περόναι 'rings,' through which the ropes passed. Seaton (Cl. Rev. x. 170) inclines to Vars' view that the περόναι (cabillots, belaying-pins) round which the ropes were fastened were attached to something of the nature of an ἴκριον, such as a 'fife-rail' (râtelier). κάλωες and κάλωας are new formations of Ap.; in Hom. we find only κάλους, Od. 5. 260.This text is part of:
Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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