having four oars to each bench/banks of oars
Latin word, found 40 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.24: … remigum ad fauces portus prodire iussit. Has cum audacius progressas Libo vidisset, sperans intercipi posse, quadriremes V ad eas misit. Quae cum navibus nostris appropinquassent, nostri veterani in portum refugiebant: illi studio …
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.86: egreditur in Centuripina quadriremi Cleomenes e portu; sequitur Segestana navis, Tyndaritana, Herbitensis, Heracliensis, Apolloniensis, Haluntina …
All forms of quadriremis