Trierarchy
idea · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
trierarchy · duties of trierarch · equipment of a war-galley · equipment of war-galleys · equipment of war-vessels · service · service as trierarch · term of my trierarchy · trierarch · trierarchies
in the texts
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
The naval public service in which the speaker says he was serving.
Well, then, that he consented and extended the time of payment has been established for you by witnesses, and that I was serving as trierarch my colleague in the trierarchy has testified, and also that the ship was equipped as flagship for the admiral Alcimachus.
Against Leptines
The naval liturgy of equipping warships, from which the law cited allows no exemption except for the nine archons.
[And none shall be exempt from the trierarchy except the nine archons.
For of course you are aware that no one is exempt from the equipment of war-galleys or from the special contributions for war.
How many, pray, are there that annually perform the regularly recurring services—chorus-masters, presidents of gymnasia, and public hosts?
Apollodorus Against Polycles
The Athenian naval public service requiring a citizen to equip, man, or command a warship for a term.
When I arrived at Sestus, I expected to sail for home, as my term of service had expired, and I had already served two months beyond it and no successor had arrived to take over the ship.
but as it is, the question concerns the succession to a ship, and extra trierarchal expenses for five months and six days, and it concerns also the laws, whether they are to be in force, or not.
More than that, I furnished the ship with equipment wholly my own, taking nothing from the public stores, and I made everything as beautiful and magnificent as possible, outdoing all the other trierarchs.
Fourth Philippic
A costly Athenian liturgy connected with fitting out warships.
There was a time not long ago when the revenue of your state did not exceed a hundred and thirty talents, and yet of those competent to undertake the trierarchy or pay the property-tax there is not one that declined the duty that devolved on him in the absence of a surplus;
On the Trierarchic Crown
The public naval liturgy or service requiring a citizen to command and support a trireme.
For they sought out the man who would take their trierarchy on the lowest terms, and have let the service to him.
For they are their own masters in all that they do, and they all but sell the public weal by the voice of the common crier;
For a man who serves as trierarch in the interest of Athens ought not to expect to grow rich at the public expense, but ought by means of his own resources to repair the losses of the state, if you are to have the service which you need.
Antidosis
A public naval liturgy or civic expense that occasioned the earlier property-exchange trial and exposed hostile opinion toward Isocrates.
for, although my opponent made no argument whatever on the merits of the case, and did nothing but decry my “cleverness” of speech and indulge in extravagant nonsense about my wealth and the number of my pupils, they imposed the trierarchy upon me.
Then when my career was near its close, having been challenged to an exchange of property on the question of a trierarchy, and subjected to a trial on that issue, I came to realize that even outside of my profession there were those who were not disposed towards me as I had thought;