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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Propes

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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. 

PRO'PES. The lower end of the "sheet" (pes), attached to the clues of a square sail; viz. that which was fastened down to the quarters of the vessel, in order to keep the sail stretched to the wind, as shown by the annexed woodcut (Propes/1.1) from a coin of Lepidus. Turpil. ap. Isidor. xix. 4. 3. Compare Herod. ii. 36.

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