trierarchy

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Moreover, the liturgies of the state, as they were called--unpaid functions such as the trierarchy, choregy, gymnasiarchy, etc., which entailed expense and trouble on the holder of them--were distributed in some way or other between the members of the three classes, though we do not know how the distribution was made in these early times.

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  1. noun The authority or office of the commander of a trierarch.
  2. noun The ancient Athenian system whereby individual citizens furnished and maintained triremes as a part of their public duty.

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  • Moreover, the liturgies of the state, as they were called--unpaid functions such as the trierarchy, choregy, gymnasiarchy, etc., which entailed expense and trouble on the holder of them--were distributed in some way or other between the members of the three classes, though we do not know how the distribution was made in these early times. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
  • He said he had, and going to his house we found that Diogeiton had given over to him (Alexis) twenty-four minae for the trierarchy. —  The Orations of Lysias
  • Of the extraordinary liturgies, the trierarchy was the most important. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • The cost of a whole trierarchy was not less than forty minas, nor more than a talent VIII. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • What the theory designed as the munificence of patriotism, became in practice but a showy engine of corruption; and men vied with each other in the choregia or the trierarchy, not so much for the sake of service done to the state, as in the hope of influence acquired over the people. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
 

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  1. from Greek τριηραρχία, the office or dignity of a trierarch, from τριήραρχος, a trierarch: see trierarch.
 

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