Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . about the equipment and operations of a Roman fleet.^^ Thefirst ships of war were probably built from the model of those ofAntiura, which, after the reduction of that city, were brought to 1 er singulis arboribus 4 carinie ac statumina. xlviii. 18. Plin. iv. 16. 66. cavatis, Virg. G. i. the keel and ribs, ex vii. 56. xxiv. 9. s. 40. 9 ex tabulis crassiori- 12fi. 26-2. xvi. 41. levi materia. 7 Plin. V. 12. Ov. Met. bus, Fest. Liv. xxvi. 26. 5 leiiquum corpus na- vi. vers. ult. et Am. ii. 10 Sen. Brev. Vit. 13.
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . about the equipment and operations of a Roman fleet.^^ Thefirst ships of war were probably built from the model of those ofAntiura, which, after the reduction of that city, were brought to 1 er singulis arboribus 4 carinie ac statumina. xlviii. 18. Plin. iv. 16. 66. cavatis, Virg. G. i. the keel and ribs, ex vii. 56. xxiv. 9. s. 40. 9 ex tabulis crassiori- 12fi. 26-2. xvi. 41. levi materia. 7 Plin. V. 12. Ov. Met. bus, Fest. Liv. xxvi. 26. 5 leiiquum corpus na- vi. vers. ult. et Am. ii. 10 Sen. Brev. Vit. 13. 2 Paterc. ii. 107. Ov. vium viminibus con- Luc. iii. 194. Varr. Vit. Rom. 11. F. ii. 407. Liv. i. 4. textura. 8 Diod. V. 7. Virg. .En. Polyb. i. 20. 21. XXV. 3. Plin. vi. 23. 6 ^.n. vi. 414. Cxs. B. vi. 15. Cxs. B. G. iii. 11 Liv. ix. 30. 33. Strab. iii. 155. C. Luc. iv. 131. 13. Tac. Ann. ii. 24. 3 Juv. V. S9. Fest. HeroJot. i. 194. Dio. Hist. V. 23. Juv. xii. 2f 338 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. Koine A. U, 417.^ It was not, lioueverwar that they made any figure by Navis Longa. till the first Punic Ships of warwere called navesLONG-E, becausethey were of alonger shape thauships of burden,(naves onerari^,ohKahigy whencehulks; or arcae,barks,) which weremore round anddeep. The shipsof war were drivenchiefly by oars,the ships of bur-den by sails,- andas they were moreheavy,^ and sailedmore slowly, theywere sometimestowed* after thewar si lips.*Navis ships of war were variously named from their rows orranks of oars.** Those which had two rows or tiers were calledbiremes ; three, triremes ; four, quadrirernes ; five, quinquerentesvel penteres. The Romans scarcely had any ships of more than five banksof oars; and therefore those of six or seven banks are calledby a Greek name, hexercs, hepteres, and above that by a cir-cumlocution, naves, octo, novem., decern ordinum, vel versuum.^Thus, Livy calls a ship of sixteen rows ^ navis ingentis magni-tiidinis, quam se
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