Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 230
models of the war-ships of the ancients. Onewriter describes the heptareme used by Pyrrhus,king of Epirus, and also the great galley of Ptolemy Philopater,— the Great Eastern ofthe East,— propelled by forty banks of oars.This statement, however, is questioned, for, how-ever plain the descriptions… … GALLEYS IN ACTION. while there are many pictures and sculptures ofgalleys, they show nothing more than a trireme,that is, a ship of three tiers or banks, an arrange-ment which, however uncomfortable for the menwhose duty or fate it was to handle the topbank of oars, is readily recognized as a…
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