Histories

So this was done by those who were appointed to the thankless honor, and new engineers set about making the bridges. They made the bridges as follows: in order to lighten the strain of the cables, they placed fifty-oared ships and triremes alongside each other, three hundred and sixty to bear the bridge nearest the Black Sea [38,42] (sea)Euxine sea, and three hundred and fourteen to bear the other; all lay obliquely to the line of the Black Sea [38,42] (sea)Pontus and parallel with the current of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont.[*](Or it may mean, as Stein thinks, that the ships of the upper or N.E. bridge were e)pikarsi/ai, and those of the lower or S.W. one were kata\ r(o/on. For a discussion of the various difficulties and interpretations of the whole passage, see How and Wells' notes, ad loc.)