τριήρης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(sc. [[ναῦς]]), ἡ, gen. εος, Att. ους <span class="title">IG</span>22.1629.615, Ion. ευς <span class="bibl">Hippon.49.2</span>; acc. εα, Att. η <span class="title">IG</span>22.1610.30, 1623.113, 1632.235,338 (but [[τριήρην]] ib.1628.35, 1629.862): nom. pl. εες, Att. <b class="b3">εις;</b> gen. [[τριήρων]] ib.1627.397, etc., Ion. <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> τριηρέων <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.89</span>; hence <span class="bibl">Choerob. <span class="title">in Theod.</span>1.411</span> H. prescribes as the contr. form [[τριηρῶν]], not [[τριήρων]], as in codd. of <span class="bibl">Th.6.46</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.4.11</span>, <span class="bibl">D.14.9</span>, v. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.428</span>; Thom.Mag.p.356 R. prescribes sg. [[τριήρεος]] and pl. [[τριήρων]] (<b class="b3">τριήρεων ρὰρ . . λέγομεν</b>"), citing Aristid.1.431 J.: gen. dual τριήροιν <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">HG</span>1.5.19</span>:—[[a trireme]], i.e. prob. <b class="b2">a galley with three men on each bench, each man rowing one oar, and three oars passing together through the</b> [[παρεξειρεσία]] (cf. Tarn [[Hellenistic Military and Naval Developments]], Cambridge <span class="bibl">1930</span>,<span class="bibl">pp.122</span> sqq.), <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.159</span>, <span class="bibl">7.36</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1</span>. <span class="bibl">13</span>, <span class="bibl">2.93</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>369b10</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">HA</span>533b6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>1411a23</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1623.276, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>1.24</span>, etc.; τ. ἱππηγοί <span class="title">IG</span>22.1627.241. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> metaph., <b class="b2">a ship-shaped drinking-vessel</b>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.224.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Epin.2.8</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> as Adj., = [[τριώροφος]], [[οἰκίαι]] <span class="bibl">Aristid.<span class="title">Or.</span>27(16).20</span>.</span>