Ships and vessels
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ships · vessels · man-of-war · merchant vessels · triremes
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Ships used for navigation and trade, cited as evidence in the argument about the sea's non-ownership.
Pliny says that cohorts of archers were carried on the boats engaged in trade as protection against pirates;
But there is not a single person in the world who does not know that a ship sailing through the sea leaves behind it no more legal right than it does a track.
Anabasis
Sea-going transport and war vessels central to debates over leaving by sea.
Here Cheirisophus also came, with a man-of-war.
I am astonished, soldiers, that the generals do not endeavour to supply us with money to buy provisions;
Xenophon, finally, took ships, disembarked at the boundaries separating Thrace and the territory of Heracleia, and pursued his way through the back country.