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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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At the period of which we treat each vessel had one trierarch.
Comus, the trierarch, was overeager, or he would have remembered that which he seemed to have forgotten.
The officers were the trierarch and next to him the helmsman, who was the navigating officer of the trireme.
So did not think the trierarch and the centurion on board the trireme.
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.
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.

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