Crossword-Solution: NAVARCH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Sicinnus had come down the ladder, smiling, jesting, a dozen subalterns salaaming as he went, and offering all manner of service, for had he not been a bearer of great good tidings to the king? “Till to-morrow,” an olive-skinned Cilician navarch had spoken.

The trireme, pulling only one of her banks, was dropping behind, her navarch leaving the tiring chase to the penteconter, but the latter hung on doggedly.

Come on deck; and when the ship is taken, entreat the navarch to be merciful and generous.” “Bah!” spat Phormio, “you write your promises in water, or better in oil, black-scaled viper.

They keep us out, and bawl, ‘The navarch! show us the navarch, or Hellas is lost.’ And one of them—as true as that I sucked my mother’s milk—is Phormio—” “Phormio the fishmonger,”—Cimon dropped his steering oar,—“on a Carthaginian ship? You’re mad yourself, man.” “See with your own eyes, captain.

Many a morning had he haggled with him merrily for a fine mackerel or tunny, and the navarch recoiled in horror at his fellow-citizen’s plight.