Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Puppis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PUPPIS (πρύμνα). The poop, stern, or after part of a ship. The works of art, hithero discovered, do not furnish us with any clear and satisfactory example of the precise manner in which the ancient ship-builders constructed the sterns of their vessels, beyond the fact that they are always represented round, and in many cases scarcely distinguishable from the prow (prora). Of such, numerous specimens are introduced in various parts of these pages; but the annexed example (Puppis/1.1), composed by the Academicians of the Royal Antiquarian Society at Naples (Academici Ercolanesi) from parts or indications observable in different ancient monuments, is introduced in order to give a more practical notion of the real appearance presented by the stern view of an ancient vessel, than what can be acquired from the conventional figures mostly exhibited by the artists of antiquity. If compared with the illustration s. PRORA, which shows a prow faithfully delineated from the antique, it will be at once seen how well the two would suit together, as the fore and after parts of the same vessel.

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