trireme

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One of those who most vehemently opposed him was Architeles, the captain of the Sacred Trireme, who had not sufficient money to pay his crew, and therefore wished to sail back to Athens.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

A Trireme at Sea.—A trireme, then is an heroic fighting instrument.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns

I am to dine with him to-morrow at the Trireme.

From The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays by Dargan, Olive Tilford

And from this circumstance that house was called the Trireme.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us