previous next  3. The opening in the middle post, where the
arrow is laid, is equal to one fourth of the hole. The four
surrounding corners should have iron plates nailed to their
sides and faces, or should be studded with bronze pins and
nails. The pipe, called σῦπιξ in Greek, has a length of nineteen
holes. The strips, which some term cheeks, nailed at the right
and left of the pipe, have a length of nineteen holes and a
height and thickness of one hole. Two other strips, enclosing
the windlass, are nailed on to these, three holes long and half
a hole in breadth. The cheek nailed on to them, named the
“bench,” or by some the “box,” and made fast by means of dove-
tailed tenons, is one hole thick and seven twelfths of a hole in
height. The length of the windlass is equal to . . . 1 holes,
the thickness of the windlass to three quarters of a hole.  1
The dots here and in what follows, indicate lacunae in the
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