Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a vessel of thirty oars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
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- noun historical, Ancient Greece A
vessel withthirty banks ofoars , or thirtyranks ofrowers .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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With these he set sail in a number of fishing-boats, with a triaconter or ship of war of thirty oars, sailing in company, and anchored off a certain cape which stretches towards Euboea.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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