will write over each in turn, as it were,
'examined and approved.'"

[13] Lit. "will miss the thing that is not."

[14] "Detect what needs attention."

I must tell you, Socrates, what strikes me as the finest and most
accurate arrangement of goods and furniture it was ever my fortune to
set eyes on; when I went as a sightseer on board the great Phoenician
merchantman, [15] and beheld an endless quantity of goods and gear of
all sorts, all separately packed and stowed away within the smallest
compass. [16] I need scarce remind you (he said, continuing his
narrative) what a vast amount of wooden spars and cables [17] a ship
depends on in order to get to moorings; or again, in putting out to sea;
[18] you know the host of sails and cordage, rigging [19] as they call
it, she requires for sailing; the quantity of engines and machinery of
all sorts she is armed with in case she should encounter any hostile
craft; the infinitude of arms she carries, with her crew of fighting men
aboard. Then all the vessels and utensils, such as people use at home on
land, required for the different messes, form a portion of the
freight; and besides all this, the hold is heavy laden with a mass of
merchandise, the cargo proper, which the master carries with him for the
sake of traffic.

[15] See Lucian, lxvi. "The Ship," ad in. (translated by S. T. Irwin).

[16] Lit. "in the tiniest receptacle."

[17] See Holden ad loc. re {xelina, plekta, kremasta}.

[18] "In weighing anchor."

[19] "Suspended tackle" (as opposed to wooden spars and masts, etc.)

Well, all these different things that I have named lay packed there in a
space but little larger than a fair-sized dining-room. [20] The several
sorts, moreover, as I noticed, lay so well arranged, there could be no
entanglement of one with other, nor were searchers needed; [21] and if
all were snugly stowed, all were alike get-at-able, [22] much to the
avoidance of delay if anything were wanted on the instant.

[20] Lit. "a symmetrically-shaped dining-room, made to hold ten
couches."

[21] Lit. "a searcher"; "an inquisitor." Cf. Shakesp. "Rom. and Jul."
V. ii. 8.

[22] Lit. "not the reverse of easy to unpack, so as to cause a waste
of time and waiting."

Then the pilot's mate [23]--"the look-out man at the prow," to give him
his proper title--was, I found, so well acquainted with the place for
everything that, even off the ship, [24] he could tell you where