the ship

Give me, then, a ship and a crew of twenty men to take me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta and to Pylos to inquire about the nostos of my father who has so long been missing.

Thus, then, the ship sped on her way through the watches of the night from dark till dawn.

She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.

Fluctibus ignotis insultavere carinae.

Si vero ante alios navigasse, et viam quodammodo aperuisse, hoc vocant occupare, quid esse potest magis ridiculum? Nam cum nulla pars sit maris, in quam non aliquis primus ingressus sit, sequetur omnem navigationem ab aliquo esse occupatam. Ita undique excludimus. Quin et illi qui terrarum orbem circumvecti sunt, totum sibi Oceanum acquisivisse dicendi erunt. Sed nemo nescit navem per mare transeu …

Hence Ulpian says that the maintenance of ships is the highest duty of a state, because it is an absolutely natural necessity, but that the maintenance of hucksters has not the same value.

Board this ship, the one without breach, the one capable of ferrying across — she who stands in the house of Narāśaṃsa and of Bhaga, furnished with a hundred oars.

Board the ship of Bhaga, the full one, the one that moves without stumbling;

and after I had done everything possible, and had incurred the utmost enmity on the part of this fellow, I with difficulty secured the money, the ship being sold for forty minae, the precise amount for which she was mortgaged.

So I took over the seven minae from Parmeno, and having had transferred to myself the obligation for the three, which the plaintiff had already received from him, caused a bill of sale to be executed on the ship and the slaves until such time as he should repay me the ten minae, which he had received through me, and also the thirty for which he had made me his surety with the banker.

Not long after this, the bank having failed, and Heracleides for a time having gone into hiding, the plaintiff schemed to send the slaves from Athens, and to remove the ship from the harbor.

The ship safely brought to Cephallenia, thanks chiefly to the gods, and after them to the bravery of the seamen.

Hegestratus, accordingly, when they were two or three days’ voyage from land, went down by night into the hold of the vessel, and began to cut a hole in the ship’s bottom, while Zenothemis, as though knowing nothing about it, remained on deck with the rest of the passengers.

When the vessel arrived here—for the Cephallenians ordered, despite the plaintiff’s machinations, that it should put into the port from which it first sailed—those who had lent money on the ship immediately took possession of her, and the man who had bought the grain took possession of it;

For the time being it seemed to me best to weigh anchor and sail where he ordered me, but when I put into Thasos again, after towing the vessels to Strymê as the general had ordered, bidding the sailors and the marines and the rowers to remain on board, I went by myself to the house where the general, Timomachus, lodged, wishing that he too should be present, when I offered the ship with her full …

When, then, on our homeward voyage we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors (he said he had none, but should get some from Mytilenê), and the men had nothing with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing, again taking some of our citizens as witnesses I approached the defendan …

Since he refused to take over the ship, and the sailors were asking for money that they might buy supplies, I came up to him again, having witnesses with me, and asked whether he had come out with money with the purpose of taking over the ship from me, or not.

this I will not do, but if they will allow me, I shall launch the ship and do my duty;

Now my purpose is not to put her to death in Troy, but to carry her to Hellas in my sea-borne ship, and then surrender her to death, a recompense to all whose friends were slain in Ilium.

Hecuba, one ship alone delays its plashing oars, and it is soon to sail to the shores of Phthia freighted with the remnant of the spoils of Achilles’ son;

Then trust in the winds without care, and haul your swift ship down to the sea and put all the freight on board;

Haul up your ship upon the land and pack it closely with stones all round to keep off the power of the winds which blow damply, and draw out the bilge-plug so that the rain of heaven may not rot it.

Give a fair wind and sight of safe return to the shipmen who speed and govern this ship.

Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you:

but even now take me aboard and you shall make your voyage.

Hektor sent two messengers to the city to bring the lambs and to bid Priam come, while Agamemnon told Talthybios to fetch the other lamb from the ships, and he did as Agamemnon had said.

When Leda had lain with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, she bare them beneath the peak of the great hill Taygetus, — children who are deliverers of men on earth and of swift-going ships when stormy gales rage over the ruthless sea.

Thus two men, in New York, may exchange their respective rights of property, in two ships, that are, at the time, in the Pacific ocean.

With such goings-on aboard ship do you not think that the real pilot would in very deed be called a star-gazer, an idle babbler, a useless fellow, by the sailors in ships managed after this fashion?

Conceive this sort of thing happening either on many ships or on one:

by that may we cross over all difficulties and mount a well-constructed ship.

for if he were asked how this is so, he would answer that he has seen the ship indicate a carpenter and the building an architect.

For they are the inventions of man, not of the wise man, just as much, by Hercules, as ships, in which we cross rivers and seas, with sails fitted to catch the force of the winds, and rudders added at the stern, which turn the ship's course this way and that.

Now, Zeus, now can the white radiance of prosperous days approach our swift, sea-speeding ships, since Ajax forgets his pain anew, and has instead fully performed all prescribed sacrifices to the gods with worship and strict observance.

So now at the tent of Ajax by the ships where he has his post at the camp’s outer edge, I watch you for a long time as you hunt and scan his newly pressed tracks, in order to see whether he is inside or away.

Shall I leave my station at the ships and the Atreidae to their own devices in order to go home across the Aegean?

Unless perhaps you will assert a ship safe without a keel, without a prow, without a stern, without the soundness of the whole frame.

if there are to be ships enough so that not so much as one man will be left behind here, we shall set sail;

and from Heracleia on there is no difficulty either by land or by water, for there are ships in abundance at Heracleia.

After that, when the Heracleots learned that it had been voted to sail away, and that Xenophon himself had put the question to vote, they did send the ships, but in the matter of the money they had promised to Timasion and Thorax they turned out to be deceivers.

Therefore the Athenians furnished Piraeus with gates, set about building ships, and gave aid to the Boeotians with all zeal.

For once it was granted that it is the business of the ruler to give orders and of the ruled to obey, he went on to show that on a ship the one who knows, rules, and the owner and all the others on board obey the one who knows: