Crossword-Solution: TRIERARCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trierarch | n. | The commander of a trireme. |
| Trierarch | n. | At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service. |
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| citizen responsible for fitting out a state trireme, esp in Athens | 1 answer |
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Sentences with TRIERARCH (5)
The nominal, and sometimes actual, commander of the trireme is her trierarch; but obviously a cultivated old gentleman like Eustathius is no man to manage the ship in a sea fight.
Nominally his main duty is to act as pilot, but actually he is in charge of the whole ship; and in battle the trierarch (if aboard) will be very glad to obey all his “suggestions.” Next to the “governor” there is the _proireus_, another experienced sailor who will have especial charge of the forecastle in battle.
Occasionally, but rarely, an ambitious or patriotic trierarch defrayed the whole cost; but in any case he rendered strict account of the expenses incurred.
For Conon, commanding near the Peloponnesus, who was my father's friend when he was Trierarch, asked him to give my sister to the son of Nicophemus when he asked her hand.
Aristophanes purchased land and a house for more than five talents, supplied choruses for himself and his father for five thousand drachmae, and spent eighty minae as Trierarch.