School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . APICES, CAPS WORK BY THE SAIII. API-IRACTUS (acppaicTos vads), calledalso navis aperta, a ship which had no deck,but was merely covered with planks in thefront and hinder part, as is represented in thefollowing cut. The ships which had deckswere called cataphracti {KaracppaKToi), andtectae or stratae. At the time of the Trojanwar the Greek ships hi;d no decks, but wereonly covered over in the prow and stern,which covering Homer calls the XKpta APHRACinS APHRODFSIA (Ac^poStVia), were fes-tivals celebrated in honour of Aphrodite, ina gre
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . APICES, CAPS WORK BY THE SAIII. API-IRACTUS (acppaicTos vads), calledalso navis aperta, a ship which had no deck,but was merely covered with planks in thefront and hinder part, as is represented in thefollowing cut. The ships which had deckswere called cataphracti {KaracppaKToi), andtectae or stratae. At the time of the Trojanwar the Greek ships hi;d no decks, but wereonly covered over in the prow and stern,which covering Homer calls the XKpta APHRACinS APHRODFSIA (Ac^poStVia), were fes-tivals celebrated in honour of Aphrodite, ina great number of towns in Greece, butc 4 32 APOPHORETA. particularly in the island of Cyprus. Hermost ancient temple was at Paphos. Nobloody sacrifices were allowed to be offered toher, but only pure fire, fl )wers, and (^cpXaa-TOf), an ornamentof wooden planks, which constituted thehighest part of the poop (prumnis) of a the representations of two ancientships annexed, we see the position of theaplustre. It rose immediately behind thegubernator, who held the rudder and guidedthe ship, and it served in some degree toprotect him from the wind and the rain.
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