So did not think the trierarch and the centurion on board the trireme. |
The captain of the trireme, the trierarch, was not a specialist, but a wealthy citizen who had volunteered or been appointed to take up this prestigious position. |
At the period of which we treat each vessel had one trierarch. |
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. |
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. |
Comus, the trierarch, was overeager, or he would have remembered that which he seemed to have forgotten. |