Antony immediately left his flagship, boarded a quinquereme and followed.
The quinquereme was too frail to attempt a blockade or to patrol the sea lanes in all seasons.
They undertook singly, or by two or three combining, according to their means, to supply a quinquereme fully fitted out, on the understanding that they were to be repaid if the expedition was successful.
In this way they took four triremes, and sunk one quinquereme with all hands, on board of which Margos of Caryneia was sailing, who had all his life served the Achaean league with complete integrity.
They themselves must die, but it was their duty to prevent the departure from the quinquereme of any prisoners.
Now sail thou on, for there is another quinquereme and she may not be far away.
Other swift orders followed, and every legionary on board the quinquereme was at his post, for the Romans are not easily to be taken by surprise because of their strict discipline and their rule for perpetual readiness by day or night.
After yonder quinquereme goeth down thou hast cause to consult with me.
Follow me," said Ben Ezra, "ere this accursed quinqueremegoeth down bearing us with it.
On the stern of the quinquereme stood three men who were not in armor.
Angrily, loudly, in his last desperate valor, blew the trumpeter his final defiance, but as the blast ended the prow of the quinqueremewent madly under, lifting the stern out of water for a moment.
He came to the after deck of the quinquereme when his outlooks called him, and his answer to them was haughty.
The quinquereme was settling in the water and her crew could cast spears no more.
Not the centurion nor his officers nor any seaman or legionary on board the quinquereme had any thought or suspicion of that which was to come.
It was not long after the sinking of the quinquereme that the jarl and the Jew, Ben Ezra, stood face to face in a small room under the fore deck.
With a breaking of timbers, a braying of horns, a chorus of mocking war cries, the quinquereme was smitten amidships with a force which threw her legionaries prostrate and sent her rowers from their oars.
The ambassadors sent to Africa on those affairs, were Caius Terentius Varro, Publius Lucretius, and Cneius Octavius, each of whom had a quinquereme assigned him.
We may, perhaps, infer that the quinquereme of that time was a little longer than the trireme, and had about 3 ft.
Polybios tells us that the crew of a Roman quinquereme in the first Carthaginian War, at a battle fought in 256 B.
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