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quinqueremes

quinqueremes is a Latin form of quinqueremis, meaning “quinquereme (warship with five banks of oars)”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural feminine adjective or nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.101: … am non tulerunt, sed sua sponte naves conscenderunt et a terra solverant impetuque facto in Cassianam classem quinqueremes duas, in quarum altera erat Cassius, ceperunt; sed Cassius exceptus scapha refugit; praeterea duae sunt depre …

All forms of quinqueremis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.