64 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



sen'sations) pains mingled with pleasures." With regai-d to tlie con- 

 struction, To6ro£<r 7r/>oc ixsiyouq is the ordinary mode of expressing 

 enmity or opposition between two parties. 



Ibid. 47. C. 7:£p\ ds rwy iy (pv^f) a(uij.art. ravavria ^upiftrW.sTat. 

 Here, as Stallbaum says, "deest aliquid ad loci integritatem." Butt- 

 mann conjectured iv (po^ij xai amixari, oTav 4'^ZV '^^P'^'^^ rdyavrta 

 KUfijSdXXTjvai, which suits the sense admirably, but is too violent a 

 remedy. Ast imagines that rj has fallen out after fO)(TJ ; but, as 

 Stallbaum says, this would hardly suit the sense. I am inclined to 

 think that the most natural remedy would be to supply ^, which 

 would readily be absorbed in the final syllable of f u/^ (see note on 

 • 46: E.), and would suit the sense equally with Buttmann's reading. 

 I would render — " But concerning those in the soul, where it con- 

 tributes (to the mixture) opposite sensations to those of the body, 

 viz., pain in immediate contrast with the body's pleasure, &c." 

 • The Trireme. 



In a series of papers, which have appeared, from time to time, in 

 the Revue Des Deux Mondes, entitled " La Marine De L' Avenir 

 Et La Marine Des Anciens," M. le Vice-Amiral Jurien de la Gravi^re, 

 well known as a naval officer holding high command in the Crimean 

 and Mexican campaigns, has" examined historically the naval expe- 

 ditions of the Ancients, with a view to their bearing on the tactics 

 likely to be adopted by modern navies. In the course of his remarks, 

 he finds it necessary to refer to the much vexed question of the 

 Trireme. Was the Triremis or Tpnjpi^^, of the Ancient Greeks and 

 Romans, a vessel with three -banks of oars, one above the other, as 

 the Dictionaries tell us ? The answer, which he gives to this question, 

 is that which has been given by every practical seaman, from the 

 old Sieur Barras de la Penne, Capitaine des galores du Hoi, down to 

 the present time. All seem to agree that, even if a vessel so con- 

 structed might manage to move in smooth water, it would be almost 

 impossible for it to manoeuvre in a rough sea, or in the rapid 

 alternations of a naval combat. How then can we credit the exists 

 ence of such monstrosities as quinqueremes and naves sedecim ordinum, 

 not to speak of the reffffapaxoyr-ijpy]'; of Ptolemy Philopator 1 



Plainly some other solution must be found ; for the fact that there 

 were vessels so named is too well attested to admit of dispute. The 

 first idea, which would naturally occur to one, is that these vessels 

 received their names, not from the number of their oars, but from 



