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.
Meanwhile Cleander arrived with two triremes, but not a single merchant ship.
where we have neither ships to take us away nor food to subsist upon if we remain, while the sooner we reach there, the sooner we shall have to be off again in quest of provisions.
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;