The canal which Xerxes was to cut across the neck of this peninsula was to be wide enough for two triremes to pass each other.
We now descend to the Peiræus proper and examine the merchant shipping and wharves, leaving the navy yards and the fighting triremes till later.
All this makes the ships of Demosthene's day much handsomer, taller affairs than their predecessors which Themistocles commanded; nevertheless the old and the new triremes have most essentials in common.
While we study the vessel we are soon told that, although triremes have been in general use since, say, 500 B.
Gaius Claudius lost some of the triremes and with difficulty reached safety.
Herodotus tells us that in his time the ruins of the docks which Necho had made for the building of his triremes could still be seen on the shore of the Red Sea as well as on that of the Mediterranean.
He improved its course and widened it so as to permit of two triremes sailing abreast or easily clearing each other in passing.
Will you gratify myself and the fleet by putting your Athenian triremes into play?
Meanwhile, the Athenian fleet of a hundred and eighty triremes had just touched at Elaius in the Chersonese, but, hearing that Lampsakus was lost, proceeded to Sestos.
Though the Athenians retired towards evening, he would not let his men land before two or three triremes which he had sent to reconnoitre, returned with the intelligence that the enemy had disembarked.
Lysander, enraged at this, at first only launched a few triremes to pursue him, but when he saw the Athenians coming to his assistance he manned his whole fleet, and brought on a general action.
The envoys proceeded to Sidon, in Phoenicia, where two armed triremesand a large store-ship were got ready by their orders.
In addition there were eighty thousand horse, many war-chariots, and a fleet of twelve hundred and seven triremes and three thousand smaller vessels.
On the coast of Asia Minor a great fleet, numbering six hundred armed triremes and many transports for men and horses, was prepared.
In the end he only got together seven triremes and one thousand men,--the most of them mere mercenaries.
While their crews fought vigorously with spear and javelin, other ships from both sides dashed to their aid, and soon numbers of the war triremes were fiercely engaged.
An army of seventy thousand men landed on the western corner of the island, brought thither by a fleet of two hundred triremes and one thousand transports.
In the autumn of that year she had a fleet of one hundred and eighty triremes in the Hellespont, in the close vicinity of a Spartan fleet of about the same force, under an able admiral named Lysander.
Artaxerxes assembled three hundred thousand foot-soldiers and three hundred triremes under the command of Tiribazus, and directed the whole force against the island.
Cimon acted as though he were about to reopen the campaign in Egypt and despatched sixty of his triremes to King Amyrtceus, while he himself took Marion and blockaded Kition with the rest of his forces.
An army, variously estimated at from one to five million men, crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats to invade the peninsula from the north, while a fleet of 1200 triremeswas assembled to insure the command of the sea.
The triremes carried two sails, usually made of linen, a larger one used in cruising and a smaller one for emergency in battle.
By nightfall Phormio had rescued eight of the nine Athenian triremes that had fallen into the hands of the enemy and sent the scattered remnants of the Peloponnesian fleet in full flight towards Corinth.
In the center of this formation he placed his transports, together with five of his largest triremesto assist at any threatened spot.
On the Greek left was the Athenian division opposing the advancing triremes of Phnicia; on the right was the Spartan division facing the Greeks of Asia Minor.
At daybreak the Persian triremes drew up in three lines on each side of the island of Psyttaleia and advanced into the straits.
Accordingly he used some of his triremes as transports and started on his journey without taking the precaution to train his oarsmen or practice maneuvers.
Their own future and the future of Athenian civilization hung on the long lines of triremes drawn up on the shore.
In addition to those triremes that were sunk outright, twelve remained as prizes with their full complement of crews, and the rest scattered in flight.
But while the rest of the fleet busied itself with the deserted Athenian triremes on the share, the Spartan squadron continued in the pursuit of the eleven Athenian ships that were heading for Naupaktis.
Themistocles saw the importance of being strong at sea, and had influence or eloquence enough to obtain a decree to apply this income exclusively to ship–building, until two hundred triremes were completed with the money.
The decks of Caesar's triremes were crowded with men who slung stones, threw javelins, and worked great catapults against the Britons, in order to cover the advance of the heavily armoured soldiers as they waded through the shallow water.
Corinth, containing warriors armed with circular shields, is interesting from the place of its discovery, for Corinth was traditionally an early shipbuilding centre, and triremes are said to have been first built at that city.
The use of triremes (ships with triple arrangement of oars) did not become common among the Greeks till the earlier part of the fifth century B.
He kept his fleet of four hundred triremes sufficiently far from the shore to avoid the shelving shallows that fringe it near the entrance to the straits, and to have ample sea-room.
When he saw the galley of Antony following it, he guessed who was on board, and detached a few of his triremes in pursuit.
Its hundred triremes could disembark some twenty thousand men, for arms were provided even for the rowers.
A long, slow swell made the stately triremes rock gracefully.
Behind the pirate's triremes several large merchantmen were bearing into the harbour under a full press of sail.
The three pirate vessels, two large triremes and the yacht, discharged all their enginery.
The triremes cast off, and she swam straight for the northern tower.
They were provided with catapults and ballistae, with which to answer and silence those of the Tyrians, and were manned by soldiers, who from their height were able to reach the decks of the triremes that were sent to annoy them.
In his ears sounded the tumult of the attack upon the two harbors, where the Macedonian triremeswere seeking to break the barriers of chains.
The other came by a Roman courier, who had landed an hour before from one of the swift-going triremeswhich had left Ravenna three days later than the passenger boat that had brought Marsyas' tidings.
I have heard the report that he transferredtriremes from the outer sea to the gulf through the fortifications, using newly flayed hides smeared with olive oil instead of hauling-engines.
He had triremes built, received the deserters, made an alliance with the pirates, and took under his protection the exiles.
However, I can find no exploit recorded of these ships in the gulf and therefore I am unable to trust the tradition; for it was certainly no small task to draw triremeson hides over a long and uneven tract of land.
A fleet of a hundred triremes was manned, and placed at his disposal, but he with creditable pride refused to set sail until after the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries.
The Carthaginians sent twenty triremes to Rhegium, having on board ambassadors from Hiketes to Timoleon charged with instructions as bad as his deeds.
Lysander suddenly and unexpectedly assailed it, and except eight triremes which escaped under Konon, took all the rest, nearly two hundred in number.
But when Egypt revolted, and the Athenians assisted it, and Greek triremes sailed as far as Cyprus and Cilicia, and Kimon was master of the sea, then the king determined to attack the Greeks, and prevent their development at his expense.
The Corinthian troops at Thurii were in fear of the Carthaginian triremes under Hanno which were watching them, and as the sea had for many days been excessively rough, in consequence of a gale, determined to march on foot through the Bruttii.
With that money a hundred triremeswere built, which were subsequently used to fight against Xerxes.
He ordered his sailors to crown themselves with garlands, decked out his triremes with Greek shields and wreaths of palm, and set out for Syracuse.
Sailing northwards with eighteen triremes he chanced to arrive towards evening, at the end of a sea-fight off Abydos, in which neither party had won any decided advantage.
The triremes were already waiting; she went on board, the rowers took their oars and began the Keleusma.
Part 46 The Council also superintends the triremes that are already in existence, with their tackle and sheds, and builds new triremes or quadriremes, whichever the Assembly votes, with tackle and sheds to match.
For the building of the triremes it appoints ten commissioners, chosen from its own members.
On these terms he received the money and with it he had a hundred triremes built, each of the hundred individuals building one; and it was with these ships that they fought the battle of Salamis against the barbarians.
Here he ordered his ships to be hauled on shore, having sent back the four triremes of the Massilians which had, in compliment to him, attended him from their home.
The length of the canal is equal to a four days' voyage, and it is wide enough to admit two triremes abreast.
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