oar
ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. κώπη, ἡ, ταρσός, ὁ (Thuc. 7, 40, but rare P.), Ar. and V. πλάτη, ἡ, V. ἐρετμόν, τό.
equipment of oars: V. κωπήρης στόλος (Aesch., Persae 416).
furnish the hands with oars: V. ἐρετμοῦν χέρας (Euripides, Medea 4).
pull at the oar, v.:Ar. and P. ἐμβάλλειν (absol.) (Xen.); see row.
having one bank of oars, adj.: P. μονόκροτος (Xen.).
having two banks of oars: P. δίκροτος (Xen.).
a ship with thirty oars, subs.: P. τριακόντορος, ἡ.
a ship with fifty oars: P. and V. ναῦς πεντηκόντορος, ἡ (Euripides, Helen 1412).
