οἵ γε καὶ ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀντιπάλως μᾶλλον ἢ ὑποδεεστέρως τῷ ναυτικῷ ἀνθώρμουν → whose navy, even as it was, faced the Athenian more as an equal than as an inferior
tergīnum: i, n. [id.],
I a hide, raw-hide, as a scourge, Lucil. ap. Non. 414, 9: vostrum durius tergum erit quam terginum hot meum'st, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 19.