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Most of the warships of the era were distinguished by their names, which were compounds of a number and a suffix. Thus the English term quinquereme derives from Latin quīnquerēmis and has the Greek equivalent πεντήρης (pentḗrēs). Both are compounds featuring a prefix meaning "five": Latin quīnque, ancient Greek πέντε (pénte).
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a translation of the Aristotelis Mechanica (Paris, 1517) [19] Orationes quinque (Venice, 1551) [19] In addition to the published works above, Fausto left unpublished a Latin epigram in a manuscript now in the Biblioteca Estense. [9] He also made marginal annotations in his copy of the editio princeps of Homer's Iliad, published at Florence in 1488.
Thalamian, zygian, and thranite are the English terms for thalamios (θαλάμιος), zygios (ζύγιος), and thranites (θρανίτης), the Greek words for the oarsmen in, respectively the lowest, middle, and uppermost files of the triereis. The holes were pins that acted as fulcrums to the oars that allowed them to move.
Her full title was Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, qore and kandake"). Meroitic , the indigenous language of the kingdom of Kush, remains undeciphered; however, inscriptions giving Queen Amanirenas the title of " qore " as well as " kandake " suggest that she was an individually ruling queen.
Quinquagesima (/ ˌ k w ɪ ŋ k w ə ˈ dʒ ɛ s ɪ m ə /), in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide).
Artist's rendition of the ostracon. The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, [1] discovered in Building II, Room B, in Area B of the excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008. [2]
A bireme (/ ˈ b aɪ r iː m /, BY-reem) is an ancient oared warship with two superimposed rows of oars on each side. Biremes were long vessels built for military purposes and could achieve relatively high speed.