Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Greek ship of burden carrying fifty oars.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a commander of fifty men.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
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- noun history, obsolete A
galley -type Grecian vessel with fiftyoars .
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Examples
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The half company is technically called a pentecostys, and a quarter company an enomoty, and the officers in charge of them respectively penteconter and enomotarch.
Anabasis 2007
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The most common galley at Aulis was probably the penteconter, a fifty-oared ship about ninety feet long, with twenty-five rowers sitting along each side of the hull.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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The most common galley at Aulis was probably the penteconter, a fifty-oared ship about ninety feet long, with twenty-five rowers sitting along each side of the hull.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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With the addition of the trireme from Tenos, they represented twenty-three city-states, from Athens, which had 180 triremes at Salamis, to Seriphos, which provided a penteconter.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Leucas, for instance, sent only three triremes; Cythnos sent only a trireme and a penteconter; while Melos, Siphnos and Seriphos sent only penteconters—two from Melos, one each from Siphnos and Seriphos.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Leucas, for instance, sent only three triremes; Cythnos sent only a trireme and a penteconter; while Melos, Siphnos and Seriphos sent only penteconters—two from Melos, one each from Siphnos and Seriphos.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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For now, we need note the presence of only one other kind of oared ship in both fleets of 480 B.C.: the penteconter.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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With the addition of the trireme from Tenos, they represented twenty-three city-states, from Athens, which had 180 triremes at Salamis, to Seriphos, which provided a penteconter.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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For now, we need note the presence of only one other kind of oared ship in both fleets of 480 B.C.: the penteconter.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Anything less than a penteconter would be useless, and that long hull would never survive the North Atlantic.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
chained_bear commented on the word penteconter
"'So that is a galley,' said Martin, with great satisfaction... 'And if I do not mistake, it has five and twenty oars of a side. That makes it the exact equivalent of the classical penteconter: Thucydides must have seen just such a boat. What joy!'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 196
February 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word penteconter
A type of Greek galley with 50 oars.
February 19, 2008
rolig commented on the word penteconter
"A ship modelled on the legendary Argo, which carried Jason and the 50 Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, has set sail from the central Greek city of Volos on a two-month journey to Venice.
"It is a replica of a penteconter (a galley with one tier of 50 oars, 25 on either side) with a ram that was used to attack and sink enemy vessels."
– Associated Press, Sydney Morning Herald (16 June 2008), www.smh.com.au/news/world/legendary-boat-goes-for-gold-again/2008/06/15/1213468240671.html
June 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word penteconter
Nice! Thanks, rolig!
June 17, 2008