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Warfare in the Classical World
According to Cicero, the Greek commander in charge of the governor's fleet was
drunk at the time, and was the first to escape in his quadrireme as soon as the
pirates had been sighted. The provincial navy was undermanned, its crews
unpaid ...
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The orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
and soldiers in that quadrireme. The quadrireme, almost flying, had already got
out of sight, while the other ships were still hard at work in their original station.
However, those who were left behind displayed a good deal of courage.
Although ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1878
Records survive as to the crew muster of a Rhodian quadrireme and are given in
the second column:32 officers 7 in the plastic model illustrated: 7 leading ratings
10 10 sailors 10 10 marines 20 30 archers 6 12 artillerymen 2 12 rowers, ...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the ...
A trireme might therefore be a much more powerful vessel than a quadrireme or
quinquereme. On a similar principle, a quadrireme would have four horizontal
tiers of oars, as follows : — but, as in the case of the trireme, she would still be a ...
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The Gladiators: History's Most Deadly Sport
The quadrireme was rowed by two or three rows of oarsmen, one above the other
. The difference between this and the bireme and the trireme was that instead of
each having his own oar, the oarsmen on the quadrireme sat one or two to an ...
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Roman Civilization: Selected Readings
QUADRIREME, a galley having groups of four rowers; similarly, the trireme used
groups of three oarsmen, the quinquereme groups of five, the septireme groups
of seven. Quattuorvir, member of four-man board; especially the board of ...
Naphtali Lewis, Meyer Reinhold, 1990
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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ships and Boats
270 QUADRIREME QUADRIREME A Quadrireme was a GALLEY from Greek
and Roman times. Although BIREME meant two banks of oars, and TRIREME
meant three banks of oars, it is considered unlikely, though not impossible, that ...
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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and ...
The sweeping campaign led to the introduction of the quadrireme and
quinquereme. Their Greek names tetreres ("rowed by four") and penteres ("rowed
by five") derived from the novel system of manning the oars. In the trireme each
man ...
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Essays on Ancient History: A Selection of Articles and Reviews
In this event the terms "thalamite," "sygite," and "thranite" might have been used
on a quadrireme (but on this class only), the fourth class receiving some name
which has, in view of its rarity, not come down or perhaps simply being entitled ...
Chester G. Starr, Arther Ferrill, Thomas Kelly, 1979
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The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient & Medieval Warfare
Under the early Safavids, the Qizilbash formed the military elite of the state.
quadrireme galley with four files of oarsmen on each side, Anglicized from the
Latin words for 'four-oared' (see Obireme). There were probably two banks of
oars, each ...
WIADOMOŚCI, KTÓRE ZAWIERAJĄ SŁOWO «QUADRIREME»
Sprawdź, o czym dyskutuje się w prasie krajowej i zagranicznej oraz jak jest stosowane słowo
quadrireme w wiadomościach.
James Joyce reading from Ulysses
You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters ... «YouTube, Cze 12»
