myopiarones

Updated: June 23, 2025

Its Military-Political Power Their military-political organization, especially since the Mithradatic war, was compact. Their ships, for the most part -myopiarones-, that is, small open swift-sailing barks, with a smaller proportion of biremes and triremes, now regularly sailed associated in squadrons and under admirals, whose barges were wont to glitter in gold and purple.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

Its Military-Political Power Their military-political organization, especially since the Mithradatic war, was compact. Their ships, for the most part -myopiarones-, that is, small open swift-sailing barks, with a smaller proportion of biremes and triremes, now regularly sailed associated in squadrons and under admirals, whose barges were wont to glitter in gold and purple.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)