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Subject: Re: Relative plotting vs Geographical plotting
From: Brian Whatcott (inet@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 18:02:38 EST
At 04:07 PM 1/12/02, you wrote:
>"Navis" means "ship". No connotation of sail, whatsoever. "Traditional" is a
>weakly defined concept.
...
>Best regards
>
>Herbert Prinz
It turns out that for the people who wrote the word 'ship' as navis,
and before them, as nafs there was indeed no necessary connotation
of sails as the motive force, except perhaps in the phrase,
"navem solvere" [set sail]. They were also familiar with the use of
serried ranks of sweeps as in 'quinquiremes from Nineveh'.
What is the priority of a rowed vessel in open water encounters,
I wonder? :-)
Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!
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