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AMPHIPPI

Volume 1 · 56 words · 1797 Edition

in Grecian antiquity, soldiers who, in war, used two horses without saddles, and were dexterous enough to leap from one to the other.

AMPHIPRORÆ, in the naval affairs of the ancients, vessels with a prow at each end. They were used chiefly in rapid rivers and narrow channels, where it was not easy to tack about.