pontarchus

Updated: August 12, 2026

Let those purists of Venice or Genoa who accuse me of improprieties of composition because I have written as one speaks in Spain of brigantines and caravels, of admiral and adelantado, understand, once for all, that I am not ignorant that he who holds these offices is called by the Hellenists Archithalassus and by the Latinists sometimes Navarchus and sometimes Pontarchus.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera