Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Ratis

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（σχεδία). A raft; constructed as in modern times and used either for crossing rivers or for constructing pontoon-bridges (Livy, xxi. 27), or for short voyages from island to island (Thuc.vi. 2). The construction of a raft is described at length by Homer in the fifth book of the Odyssey.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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