The antiquities of Herculaneum . with a helmet on hishead, and armed with a fhield and fpear; near him is anotherman, but very indiftincl:, armed alfo with a fhield, and whofeems to be walking towards the fea. Though this pidure isnot in good prefervation, and does not carry the marks of hav- fi] Catalogue, n. 497 and 513. £23 This was found in the ruins of Civita, the 13th of July, 1748; and the-other at the fame place, the 6th of the fame month. [3] The veffels of the ancients may be reduced to two principal kinds, merchantIhips, arid gallies. The firll of thefe were called onerariae, and we
The antiquities of Herculaneum . with a helmet on hishead, and armed with a fhield and fpear; near him is anotherman, but very indiftincl:, armed alfo with a fhield, and whofeems to be walking towards the fea. Though this pidure isnot in good prefervation, and does not carry the marks of hav- fi] Catalogue, n. 497 and 513. £23 This was found in the ruins of Civita, the 13th of July, 1748; and the-other at the fame place, the 6th of the fame month. [3] The veffels of the ancients may be reduced to two principal kinds, merchantIhips, arid gallies. The firll of thefe were called onerariae, and were for the moilpart of a conhderable burden, and worked only by fails. The fecond were namedfrom their form longae, and were almoft always worked by oars alone. Pliny, relates the different opinions concerning the invention of fhips of war; whichfome attribute to J a/on, fome to Semiramis, and fome again to others: Hippo ofTyre was the inventor of merchant (hips. [4] This is the raoft common attribute of this deity^ ing. PLATE XLV. 187 ing been executed by one of the beft hands ; it deferves how-ever an attentive examination. It may be remarked in all thethree veffels, that the oars [5] feem to be in one line [6], yet [5] It is a well-known controverfy yet undecided, whether the (hips of the anti-ents had more than one bank of oars. The fentiments of the learned upon this fub-ject may be reduced to two: firft, the opinion which is fupported by the greaternumber is, that the biremes had two banks of oars, one above the other : the tri-remes three; and fo on as far as quinquagintaremes, of which we find mention inancient authors. All however who have adopted this fyftem, are not precifely ofthe fame opinion; for fome will admit no more than two, fome three, fome four,fome five, others nine, and others as far as flxteen banks of oars, but no do they agree in their manner of explaining how thefe benches were difpofed ;fome being of opinion that one oar was dire
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