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What is a trierarch?

What is a trierarch? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) The captain of a trireme.
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Comus, the trierarch, was overeager, or he would have remembered that which he seemed to have forgotten.
There, he was a trierarch in the Athenian relief fleet sent out to assist the admiral Conon, who was blockaded at Mytilene.
Samian democrats learned of the conspiracy and notified four prominent Athenians: the generals Leon and Diomedon, the trierarch Thrasybulus, and Thrasyllus, at that time a hoplite in the ranks.
In the next year, however, he did sail as a trierarch in the scratch Athenian relief fleet sent out to relieve Conon, who had been blockaded with 40 triremes at Mytilene by Callicratidas.
At the period of which we treat each vessel had one trierarch.
After the Battle of Arginusae, in which he served as a trierarch, he was assigned to rescue Athenian sailors from sinking ships, but was prevented from doing so by a storm.

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