Ships and triremes
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
ships · triremes · fleet · small boats · vessels
in the texts
Anabasis
Sea vessels, including wrecked merchant ships and triremes that prevent the army's crossing.
Here many vessels sailing to the Pontus run aground and are wrecked;
yet you were compelled to remain upon the Thracian coast, for over against you lay triremes that prevented your crossing to Asia;
And the Thracians who dwell on this coast have boundary stones set up and each group of them plunder the ships that are wrecked within their own limits;
Hellenica
Naval vessels, especially triremes, used for support, blockade, coastal raids, siege requirements, and renewed naval commands.
For it is a place which requires both ships and troops if it is to be besieged.
And his brother Teleutias also came to his support by sea, with about twelve triremes;
for the Athenians barred the passage from Calydon to Peloponnesus with their triremes, using Oeniadae as a base.