Definition of "quadrireme" []

• A galley with four banks of oars (noun)

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• "Fun aside: Latin terms like trireme and quadrireme were purely literary usage - the Roman navy used the Greek terms."
• "You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe."
• "They proposed that the Rhodian quadrireme with its crew and the contingent which Attalus had sent should be allowed to depart and that the inhabitants should be permitted to leave the city with simply the clothes they were wearing."