Merchant ships
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
merchant ship · merchant-ships · ships · vessels
in the texts
Second Olynthiac
Commercial vessels whose plunder tempts Athenian forces toward smaller private wars.
but in the other case the risks are smaller and the prizes fall to the officers and the soldiers— Lampsacus, for example, and Sigeum, and the plunder of the merchant-ships.
Anabasis
Sea transport the army needs but lacks for departure.
For I know that this soldier here is a good man, and I know also that Dexippus was chosen by the army to be commander of the fifty-oared warship which we begged for and obtained from the Trapezuntians on the understanding that with it we were to collect vessels whereon we might return in safety, and that this Dexippus slipped away from us, and betrayed the soldiers in whose company he had gained deliverance.
meanwhile the Greeks were waiting for Cleander and the triremes and ships which were, presumably, coming, but every day they set forth with their baggage animals and slaves and fearlessly carried off wheat and barley, wine, beans, millet, and figs;
Meanwhile Cleander arrived with two triremes, but not a single merchant ship.