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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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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.

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