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.
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.
Pliny says that cohorts of archers were carried on the boats engaged in trade as protection against pirates;
Anabasis
Sea-going transport and war vessels central to debates over leaving by sea.
for as I heard from a man who chanced to arrive here yesterday on a ship, Cleander, the Lacedaemonian governor at Byzantium, is to come here with merchant vessels and men-of-war.
The Arcadians, managing to obtain ships from the Heracleots, set sail first, with the intention of making an unexpected descent upon the Bithynians and thus securing the greatest possible amount of booty;
After this the ambassadors departed, and the Greeks, inasmuch as it seemed that vessels enough were at hand, embarked and sailed for a day and a night with a fair wind, keeping Paphlagonia on the left.