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- noun Plural form of
quinquereme .
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Examples
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Of the fourteen hundred vessels which had been lost, seven hundred were war galleys, -- all large and costly quinqueremes, that is, vessels with five banks of oars.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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“Content yourself with fives—er, quinqueremes—madam!”
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Though several hundred galleys were left to garrison Methone as well as Corcyra and other strategic islands, the main fleet still numbered some four hundred and eighty of the most massive quinqueremes ever built.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Though several hundred galleys were left to garrison Methone as well as Corcyra and other strategic islands, the main fleet still numbered some four hundred and eighty of the most massive quinqueremes ever built.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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We have more than four hundred quinqueremes in fighting condition, and many more transports than that!
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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We have more than four hundred quinqueremes in fighting condition, and many more transports than that!
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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“Content yourself with fives—er, quinqueremes—madam!”
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The hundred and twenty ships of his fleet had been joined by twenty more quinqueremes Octavia had donated to her brother out of her private fortune; all hundred and forty were still at anchor in Tarentum, busy building ship sheds so the vessels could be drawn up out of the water before winter.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The hundred and twenty ships of his fleet had been joined by twenty more quinqueremes Octavia had donated to her brother out of her private fortune; all hundred and forty were still at anchor in Tarentum, busy building ship sheds so the vessels could be drawn up out of the water before winter.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Forty ships, half of them decked quinqueremes or triremes, delivered on the Kalends of November.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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