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Quinquereme \Quin"que*reme\, n. [L. quinqueremis; quinque five + remus an oar: cf. F. quinqu['e]r[`e]me] A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
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Usage examples of "quinquereme".
It used to be thought that the quadrireme contained four banks of oars and the quinquereme five, but it is now almost universally agreed that no galley ever had more than three banks of oars, and more commonly only two.
Like all war galleys of pre-Christian times, the quadrireme and quinquereme were rowed by professional oarsmen, never by slaves.
I can donate Rome ten triremes and five quinqueremes altogether, from what is here and what is elsewhere.
Caesar arrived in Abydus on the Ides of October, he found the promised fleet riding at anchor-two massive Pontic sixteeners, eight quinqueremes, ten triremes, and twenty well-built but not particularly warlike galleys.
Forty ships, half of them decked quinqueremes or triremes, delivered on the Kalends of November.
It seems that all three kinds of quinqueremes were used, each community or nation having its preference.
There are ten excellent quinqueremes in the boat sheds attached to the Cibotus Harbor, all designed to carry plenty of artillery, all endowed with the best oaken rams, and all highly maneuverable.
For they had all returned, of course, from Cato to his beloved older son, who had sailed in from Alexandria with a superb fleet of ten quinqueremes and sixty transports, the latter loaded to creaking point.
The other ten warships are Pontic quinqueremes, very big and strong, though not speedy.
Romans had captured a bireme and a quinquereme with all their marines and oarsmen, sunk three quinqueremes, and badly damaged a score of other Alexandrian ships, which limped back to the Cibotus and left Caesar in command of the Eunostus Harbor.
These days they man fully decked triremes and biremes-even quinqueremes!
The keels of thirty ships - twenty quinqueremes and ten quadriremes - were laid down, and Scipio pressed on the work so rapidly that forty-five days after the timber had been brought from the forests, the ships were launched with their tackle and armament complete.
The Carthaginian fleet was lying off Utica, and whether it was in consequence of a secret message from Carthage, or whether Hanno, who was in command, acted on his own responsibility without the connivance of his government, in any case, three quadriremes from the fleet made a sudden attack upon the Roman quinquereme as it was rounding the promontory.
In a few days, therefore, contrary to all expectation, they had fitted out twenty-two quadriremes, and five quinqueremes.