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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 10 Gallegm appear to have been rated by their banks dw' [f oars, that is, uniremes had one, biremes two, triremes tiom. Hme, quadriremes four, quinqueremes five, hexiremes ix, septiremes seven, octoremes eight, and so forth, tp to the enormous ship, with forty banks of rowers, mitt by Ptolemy Philopater. But the chief point of Meeny has been what constituted a bank or tier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.