Enkainides: meros ti tou ploiou. xula ithutenê katha pou zuga kai enkainidas huperthe kata to enkarsion enthentes ou dia pantos, alla monon amphi ta akra kai to mesaitaton desmois perisphinxantes.
[1] Nominative plural, perhaps quoted from somewhere, or else simply generated by the accusative plural in the quotation which follows. LSJ s.v. deem this a word of dubious sense (web address 1) but suggest nevertheless, very plausibly, that it may be a variant of
ἐπηγκενίδες , which occurs in the dative plural in
Homer,
Odyssey 5.253; LSJ translate the word there as "long planks bolted to the upright ribs of the ship", and Casson (46 n.19, 151 n.49, 218 n.5, 392) more succinctly as "gunwales".
[2]
Agathias 5.21.
