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H. omits to mention that the boats are usually smeared with bitumen.

οὔτε πρύμνην: the usual processes in shipbuilding, ‘distinguishing (ἀποκρίνοντες) the stern and narrowing the prow,’ are not used.

καλάμης, ‘straw,’ not for packing, but for stuffing in the interstices of the ribs (νομέας).

φοινικηίους. It is the casks that are of palm-wood; grape wine was imported (cf. 193. 3), but Babylonia had plenty of palm-wine (193. 4).

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