Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hemiolia

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. 

HEMIOL'IA (ἡμιολία). A particular kind of ship (Gell. x. 25.), used chiefly by the Greek pirates (Arrian. Anab. iii. 2. 5.); constructed in such a manner that half of its side was left free from rowers, in order to form a deck for fighting upon. (Etymol. Sylburg. ap. Scheffer. Re Nav. p. 74.) It seems to have belonged to the same class as the Cercurus, with a slightly different arrangement of the oars; and is probably represented by the annexed example (Hemiolia/1.1), from an Imperial medal (Scheff. l. c. p. 111.), in which the central portion, not occupied by rowers, forms the deck alluded to.

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  Hemiolia/1.1