Two Rhodian quadriremes met AEmilius on his passage from Chios to Samos, being sent by Livius to attend him, and king Eumenes with twoquinqueremes met him.
To Lucius Aurunculeius this business was assigned by the senate, that he should build thirty quinqueremes and twenty triremes, because there was a report that Antiochus, since the engagement at sea, was fitting out a much larger fleet.
As well as these vessels he had eight quinqueremes in pairs.
At the same time Marcus Claudius Marcellus with sixty quinqueremes was making a descent upon Achradina.
And while the ships were building the crews selected for the quinqueremes were practising.
At the same time a fleet of sixty quinqueremes under the consul Marcellus advanced to the assault from the side of the harbor.
Marcellus attacked from the quinqueremes [his large ships] the wall of the Achradina, which was washed by the sea.
Marcellus attacked from the quinqueremes the wall of the Achradina, which, as before stated, was washed by the sea.
To the fleet which Titus Otacilius the proprietor had in Sicily, twenty-five quinqueremes were added, and permission was given him, if he thought it for the interest of the state to pass over into Africa.
In the fleet of Attalus one triemiolia and two quinqueremes were sunk, while two quadriremes besides that of the king were captured.
Of the Rhodian fleet two quinqueremes and a trireme were destroyed, but no ship was taken.
While in this plight, two quinqueremes charged her on both sides at once, and destroyed the vessel itself and the fighting men on her deck, among whom fell Democrates, Philip’s admiral.
To these five quinqueremes were assigned, in order that, in a manner suitable to the dignity of the Roman people, they might visit those lands where it was important to gain respect for the Roman name.
Orders were given to send thirty quinqueremes from Sicily to Tarentum, to the consul Fabius.
Vast was her length and breadth, and she carried five banks of oars instead of three, for this was one of the new quinqueremes which Cæsar had builded for the conveyance of his legions.
I may not see Rome, for there are too many quinqueremes in the way, too many legions of warriors on the land.
His troops were also Roman legionaries, experienced in war, but his fleet was considerably less in numbers and the individual ships much smaller than the quinqueremes and octiremes of Antony.
By these private efforts a force of 200 quinqueremes was constructed.
One after the other the Carthaginian quinqueremes were grappled and stormed, for once the great corvus crashed down on a deck all the arts of seamanship were useless.
Many of them having been sent to the bottom, however, by the quinqueremes of that people, the Romans built a hundred of the latter-sized ships from the model of a Carthaginian vessel wrecked on the coast of Italy.
The quadremes and quinqueremes carried from three to four hundred rowers, and a ship belonging to Ptolemaeus Philopater is described as carrying four thousand rowers.
They had collected a fleet of more than a hundred quinqueremes and triremes, fortified themselves with a wall and triple fosse, and carefully drilled their youth in martial exercises.
He now commanded the right wing, supported by beaked vessels for charging, and the fastest sailing quinqueremes for outflanking, the enemy.
By these means a fleet of two hundred quinqueremes were quickly prepared, built on the model of the ship of the Rhodian.
It was, then, because they saw that the war they had undertaken lingered to a weary length, that they first thought of getting a fleet built, consisting of a hundred quinqueremes and twenty triremes.
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