quinquereme

an ancient Roman galley with five banks of oars on each side

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Golden prows of quinqueremes, two hundred and forty in number, filled the bottom layer, and on the cat-heads(4) there were two archers kneeling on one knee, each four cubits high; and there were armoured statues five cubits high.

Diodorus Siculus and Hephaestion's pyre

See Christopher Flood, 'Constructing the meaning of conflict: the discourse of the French Right on the Spanish Civil War', Quinquereme, xiii (1990/91), 29-45.

Andre Labarthe and Raymond Aron: political myth and ideology in 'La France libre.' (French Resistance publication during World War II)

45) For further discussion of the signifier-sensitive ethos, and the use of puns, see Stephen Hart, 'James Joyce and Cesar Vallejo: Excentricity and the Disinherited Mind', Quinquereme, 9 (1986), 171-89.

Paradigms of peripheral modernity in Lorca and Yeats

If Pitassi rightly rejects Polybius' myth of the Roman navy's origins in the First Punic War, his solution to the problems of the corvus, here distinguished from a boarding bridge, and the first Roman quinqueremes is not very satisfying (43, 45, 95).