The antiquities of Herculaneum . either onerow only, or at leaft no more are to be diftinguifhed. They obfervc alfo that theinvention of triremes is afcribed by Ytiny, vii. 56. to Aminocles, and that he quotesThurydides for it. Now Thucydides, lib. i. § 13. fays only, that the Corinthianswere the firfl who made ufe of them. See Salmajius ad Jus At. et Rom. p. 693. [5] They feem to be loaded with fpoils, perhaps taken from the enemy: andwe may obferve that there are rifings in the middle, as in thofe of the precedingplate. [6] The antients ufed to paint, carve, or fix upon the heads of their ve
The antiquities of Herculaneum . either onerow only, or at leaft no more are to be diftinguifhed. They obfervc alfo that theinvention of triremes is afcribed by Ytiny, vii. 56. to Aminocles, and that he quotesThurydides for it. Now Thucydides, lib. i. § 13. fays only, that the Corinthianswere the firfl who made ufe of them. See Salmajius ad Jus At. et Rom. p. 693. [5] They feem to be loaded with fpoils, perhaps taken from the enemy: andwe may obferve that there are rifings in the middle, as in thofe of the precedingplate. [6] The antients ufed to paint, carve, or fix upon the heads of their veflels,figures of men or animals ; and thefe figures ferved principally for marks to the fe-veral Ihips, by which ihe mariners and foldiers might diftinguilh them one from ano-ther in a large fleet. Thefe figures alfo gave names to the mips; and hence it isthat we often find them called bulls, goats, rams, &c. Thus in Virgil, Aen. v. andx. they have the different names of PriJIis, Chimera, Scylla, Centaurus, Tigris, and The.
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