 | Herodotus - 1837 - 288 pages
...8к.к7гА(!по. " The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line, in order, by a rapid turn of the vessel, to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." — Arnold on Thuc. i. 49. ft. ¿геубЬсштс?, having imputed madness to them, having attributed... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1851 - 268 pages
...Sie'mrXoi. " The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line, in order, by a rapid turn of the vessel, to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." See ii. 83, 89 ; vii. 36, 70 (A.) ; it also took in the breaking of the oars, damaging the sides, and... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1866 - 718 pages
...йи'кл-Xoi. " The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line, in order, by a rapid turn of the vessel, to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." See II. 83. 89; VII. 36. 70." Arnold. This naval manœuvre is remarked by Bloomf. as having been revived... | |
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - Greek language - 1878 - 436 pages
...ships. " The SUnirXoos was a breaking through the enemy's line, in order, by a rapid turn of the vessel, to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." Arnold's Thucyd. I. 49. Cp. Bahr. 29. ó-nXíeme: train. 30. t\«rKc. from *x«e. DF 26. àympiw (and... | |
 | Xenophon - 1890 - 530 pages
...: " The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line in order by a rapid turning of the vessel to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." So, it seems, "the superiority of nautical skill has passed," as Grote (viii. p. 234) says, " to the... | |
 | Xenophon - 1895 - 188 pages
...¿vlvrevov. "The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line, in order by a rapid turn of the vessel to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so to sink it." Arnold on Thuc. I. 49. 3. inventi autem multi sunt qui non modo pecuniam sed etiam vitam profundere... | |
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by the diekplous. " Cf. Thuc. i. 49, and Arnold's note, who says : " The diecplus was a breaking through the enemy's line in order by a rapid turning of the vessel to strike the enemy's ship on the side or stern, where it was most defenceless, and so... 