Monday, July 17, 2023
Ship
Plautus, Stichus. Trinummus. Truculentus. Tale of a Travelling Bag. Fragments. Edited and Translated by Wolfgang de Melo (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013 = Loeb Classical Library, 328), pp. 56-57 (Stichus, 366-369):
Latin cercurus is a loan word, from Greek κέρκουρος.
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dum percontor portitores, ecquae nauis ueneritFor chipper read clipper. The mistake persists in the Digital Loeb Classical Library.
ex Asia, negant uenisse, conspicatus sum interim
cercurum, quo ego me maiorem non uidisse censeo.
in portum uento secundo, uelo passo peruenit.
While I was asking the customs officers if any ship had come from Asia and they were saying that none had come, I spotted the biggest chipper that I think I've ever seen. It enters the harbor with a favorable wind, full sail.
Latin cercurus is a loan word, from Greek κέρκουρος.
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