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To: fella
They were large. There were only a few ports in the Med capable of handling them -- Egypt's, Rhodes, the Piraeus, and Portus. Lionel Casson quotes a surviving Roman-era account of the arrival of one of those huge grain boats at the Piraeus (some sort of problem, either with the ship, or a storm) and how the who city came down to rubberneck. It was a kind of turning of the tables, since a century or three earlier, after the conquest of Greece, the Romans had been so impressed by the never-used huge warship of one of the Greek/Macedonian kings of the Alexandrian successor state that they towed it to Rome as a trophy and a tourist attraction.

27 posted on 12/26/2019 11:33:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Gotta find a new image free host that will recognize this poor old CPU.

Or maybe just move a bunch of graphics via sneakernet to the newer hardware.

https://www.techpowerup.org/upload


29 posted on 12/27/2019 12:37:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
the never-used huge warship of one of the Greek/Macedonian kings

That makes me think of the Vasa and the Mary Rose.

30 posted on 12/27/2019 4:37:53 AM PST by Tax-chick ("We should find strength and pride in being an idol-smashing people." ~ Bari Weiss)
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