Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 303
A ROMAN MAN-O -WAR. fleets. The Roman people, however, awoke atlast to a sense of their own inferiority in thisregard, and from one of their enemys ships,stranded on their coast, they got the design fortheir first ship. Dockyards were enlarged, forests … were felled, and in an astonishingly short timethe first Roman fleet, consisting of one hundred and twenty-four men-of-war, put to sea. Inaddition to this navy, however, as the Romansknew the Carthaginians in the customary navaltactics would far outdo them, they decided thatsome plan would have to…
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