09-17-2005, 09:49 PM
Is a "trierarch" in the Roman navy a captain, or could it be -as it was in the Athenian and Macedonian navy- an honorific title for the sponsor of a galley?
(See [url:3pmwckr1]http://www.livius.org/a/holland/vechten/vechten_mainz_mas_inscr.JPG[/url] for an inscription mentioning a trierarch.)
(See [url:3pmwckr1]http://www.livius.org/a/holland/vechten/vechten_mainz_mas_inscr.JPG[/url] for an inscription mentioning a trierarch.)
