Identifier: illustratedcompa00rich (find matches)
Title: The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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er authority than mere conjec- ture ; for amongst the many planswhich have been suggested, there isnot one entirely free from objection.Those which appear reasonable uponpaper, and have, perhaps, some appa-rent classical authority, to lean on,are found to involve mechanical im-possibilities when reduced to prac-tice ; and those which are both feasi-ble, and proved by actual experimentto be practicable, must still be ac-cepted with hesitation, because theyare wanting in classical authorities tosupport them. Up to the number offive banks, we have pretty clear evi-dence, both circumstantial and posi-tive, that each one was counted byrank, and not by file; i. e. that theentire number of oars, no matter howmany, extending in a line from thestem to the stern, formed an or do orbank. Thus Tacitus describes a mo-neris, or vessel which had only oneline of oars, by the expression, quceordine simplici agebatur (Hist. v. 23.),as shown by the annexed illustration,from a mosaic discovered near Poz-
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zuoli. In the bireme or vessel withtwo ordines, it is equally clear, fromother words in the same passage ofTacitus, and the following illustra-tion, from a marble bas-relief, that

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