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Definition of Biremes
1. bireme [n] - See also: bireme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biremes
Literary usage of Biremes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson (1889)
"... and thus, for a vessel of the same length, doubling the number of the rowers.
Ships of this kind, which the Greeks called ' biremes,' are represented in ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"Besides the biremes, ships with single banks of ours were used, ... but in common
use it was probably restricted to biremes, and even B those ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The representations of biremes are sufficiently numerous to indicate that in the
early vase period they were the typical vessel. ..."
4. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1888)
"biremes, were found to be more than a match for the leviathans, whose doom from
that moment was ... The column of Trajan exhibits biremes as still in vogue. ..."
5. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1888)
"biremes. were found to be more than a match for the leviathans, whose doom from
that moment was ... The column of Trajan exhibits biremes as still in vogue. ..."
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