The word trireme comes from three and "remus," meaning oar. From Wordnik.com. [Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship] Reference
In fact, the name trireme was used loosely for all ships of war whether they had two banks of oars or three. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
For him a trireme is a most marvelous and magnificent sight. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
The trireme was a vessel of a considerable size, and was capable of accommodating two hundred and thirty persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
The trireme was the largest ship of war which for three hundred years had sailed in the Grecian or Mediterranean waters. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal The word "trireme" comes from three and "remus" meaning oar. From Wordnik.com. [Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson] Reference
Describe a Greek trireme and the way it was managed. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Sicilian war, arrived on board an old Punic trireme. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
A second trireme was launched with all speed, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
There was no time to be lost, for the first trireme was already. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
The gate rose, and the trireme disappeared beneath the deep arch. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Sharina used a hand axe from the trireme; the hermit had his knife. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The trireme lifted with a roar louder than the breaking of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
It stood up among the lesser tents like a trireme among fishing-boats. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
This was a state trireme, sent by the Archon to fetch Plato the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The hull was only part of the new vessel which hadn't came from the trireme. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
A silver ship, a trireme sleek as a spear, lay shining atop the waves below. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
Had the trireme not been in port, seawolves would have formed the burial detail. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
He was whisked straight off into a trireme bound for Italy, to honeymoon in exile. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
For all its size, the trireme had remarkably little space for the people aboard it. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
When Sharina chose to push the matter, everyone on the trireme treated her as a noble. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The day was brilliantly fine, and the trireme ran on mainsail with the breeze dead astern. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
A trireme is supposed to have had three tiers or banks of oars, placed one above the other. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Alcibiades affected to obey, and set sail from Catana, with the state trireme in attendance. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
And in the meantime a trireme was despatched in all haste to carry their petition to Sparta. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
But she hadn't seen him make any mistake that mattered since they boarded the trireme together. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The trireme, or ordinary war-ship, had its oars arranged in three banks, fifty men rowing at once. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Sharina felt uncomfortable, though no breath of wind had stirred since the trireme landed on Tegma. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Athenian trireme which ventured out into open water ran the risk of being driven on a hostile shore. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
They leaned into beaching tackle made fast to the sternpost and dragged the trireme another pace up the ramp. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
With the aid of its two sails a trireme is said to have gone one hundred and fifty miles in a day and a night. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Except, perhaps, that he had boarded the trireme when he could have remained in prayerful contemplation near the hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Soon after they had effected this important change of station the Salaminian state trireme arrived with momentous news from. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
The tavern had been named after Polykrates 'first trireme; and its host thought more of his own dignity than I did of mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
She was silvery-white, with a prow like a Greek trireme, sloping like a sleek nose into a bronze-jacketed ram at the waterline. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
The trireme still looked huge to Garric, but he realized that it couldn't carry more than a day or two's rations for so many men. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Even Sharina found the smell dizzying, though her own standards of hygiene had slipped considerably since she'd embarked on the trireme. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
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