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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Decemremis

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DECEMRE'MIS (δεκήρης). A vessel with ten banks of oars (ordines) on a side. (Plin. H. N. vii. 57.) The manner of arranging the oars, or of counting the banks, in vessels of so large a size, is still involved in much doubt and obscurity. But see the article HEXIREMIS; in which a possible method is suggested; and if that be admitted, it will only be requisite to add four oar-ports to each tier between stem and stern, to constitute a decemremis.

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