What is "quinqueremes"

Usage examples of "quinqueremes".

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.