Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Decemremis

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

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.