. 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. BIPRORUS (tibrpwpos). Havinga double prow (Hygin. Fab. ); which probably means avessel built sharp fore and aft, likethe fast-sailing proas of the In-dian seas, so that it could sail eitherway without tacking or going Tac. Ann. ii. 6. BIREMIS (StWos). Literally,furnished with a pair of o
. 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. BIPRORUS (tibrpwpos). Havinga double prow (Hygin. Fab. ); which probably means avessel built sharp fore and aft, likethe fast-sailing proas of the In-dian seas, so that it could sail eitherway without tacking or going Tac. Ann. ii. 6. BIREMIS (StWos). Literally,furnished with a pair of oars orsculls; and thence used, both adjec-tively with scapha, and absolutely,for a small boat rowed by one man,. who handles a pair of sculls, as inthe engraving, from an ancient frescopainting. Hor. Od. iii. 29. viii. 562. Compare 565. and611., where the same is designatedparva ratis, and alnus. 2. (SlKporos). Furnished with twobanks of oars (prdines) ; which is the
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