bireme

• “To increase the driving force and the speed, they added a second and then a third bank of oars, thus producing the "bireme" and the "trireme.”

  A History of Sea Power

• “Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of bireme warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering Trojan Horse.”

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• “Hence find bireme, hemiolia, merchantman, myoparo, quinquereme, sixteener and trireme in the glossary of Fortune's Favorites.”

  Fortune's Favorites

• “At nights, when the sea was quiet and the bireme rocked to and fro with the swells, he would often awake with a jerk, his body soaked in cold sweat as memories rushed on him in his sleep.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “The galley they were sailing on was a military bireme, twin-oared, a lot different from the trading ship that had brought him to the mines.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “From Crete, the bireme made a straight approach to Rhodes for a two-day stop during which Casca and the others were allowed to exercise themselves on deck (the crew used them to help load a cargo of skins and other items into the hold next to the slave section).”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “The ashes reached the bireme far out at sea and turned the ship into a filthy mess of wet ash and powdered pumice that invaded everything from the pores of their skins to the food they ate.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “There they were loaded on a bireme, a twin-banked coastal ship that would take them to the port of Cenchrea.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “So that even now, when the hortator of the bireme struck the skin hide of the drum to set the measure for the oarsmen, Casca could feel a twinge seem to ripple over his back, for a slave master's lash, on the galley he had slaved on, had made its mark there.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “Casca was on a bireme out of Antium when Yesuvius blew and smothered Herculaneum and Pompeii beneath tons of ash and lava.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

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