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Originally Posted by WillAdams
(I think something is wrong w/ the ship name Aes Triplex)
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No, it's fine. "Aes Triplex" means "indestructible bronze" (literally "triple bronze"); it's a reference to a sentence in one of Horace's "Odes":
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illi robur et aes triplex
circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
conmisit pelago ratem
primus...
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Which may be loosely translated as:
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Oak and indestructible bronze surrounded the heart of he who first entrusted his frail craft to the wild sea.
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This would probably have been an instantly recognisable reference to Heinlein's readers in the 1950s when - in the UK at least - Horace was a staple of every schoolboy's diet.