Note 805 — Chapter VII · THE PYTHAGOREANS
Reading edition
Aet. ii. 6, 5 (R. P. 80); “Philolaos,” fr. 12 (= 20 M.; R. P. 79). On the ὁλκάς, see Gundermann in Rhein. Mus. 1904, pp. 145 sqq. I agree with him in holding that the reading is sound, and that the word means “ship,” but I think that it is the structure, not the motion, of a ship which is the point of comparison.