11-11-2005, 07:07 AM
Reason I was asking is that I found out yesterday that the captains in Republican times are called Praefectus navis (by Livy, trierarch by the Greek authors), there are Praefecti navium in/around Forum Iulii and then they disappear. The ship's captain becomes trierarch (or centurion, depending on the theory) and then 400 years later they dig that title up again... Interesting!