The iron [weight] of the boat.
Though unambiguous, the gloss -- paralleled, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon -- is at odds with classical usage. The neuter noun
ἀγκυρηβόλιον occurs in a fragment of
Democritus quoted twice by
Plutarch (Moralia 317A, 495E), and, as LSJ s.v. note, is the equivalent there of
ἀγκυροβόλιον , "place of anchorage".
On ancient anchors see generally Lionel Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) 252-7.
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