Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hepteris

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. 

HEPTE'RIS (ἑπτήρης). A war-galley with seven banks of oars. (Liv. xxxvii. 23.) See the article HEXERES, where the method of arranging the oars and counting the banks, when they exceeded a certain number, is partially explained; and if the plan there supposed be adopted, the addition of one oar-port to each tier between stem and stern, will make the rating of seven banks instead of six; which banks will be disposed in the manner shown by the following diagram (Hepteris/1.1).

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  Hepteris/1.1