Definition of "quinqueremes" []

• Plural form of quinquereme. (noun)

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• "Of the fourteen hundred vessels which had been lost, seven hundred were war galleys, -- all large and costly quinqueremes, that is, vessels with five banks of oars."
• "“Content yourself with fives—er, quinqueremes—madam!”"
• "The hundred and twenty ships of his fleet had been joined by twenty more quinqueremes Octavia had donated to her brother out of her private fortune; all hundred and forty were still at anchor in Tarentum, busy building ship sheds so the vessels could be drawn up out of the water before winter."