This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...Wars the equipment of the forty-eight to fifty ships of the Athenian navy of that time devolved on the naucr&ricp (q.v.). When the number of the fleet was increased, the necessary number of trierarchs was nominated in each year by the strategl. The State provided the vessel, i.e. the hull and mast; and every trierarch ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...Wars the equipment of the forty-eight to fifty ships of the Athenian navy of that time devolved on the naucr&ricp (q.v.). When the number of the fleet was increased, the necessary number of trierarchs was nominated in each year by the strategl. The State provided the vessel, i.e. the hull and mast; and every trierarch had to fit out this vessel with the necessary equipment, to keep it in readiness for the year, and to man it with a complete crew of oarsmen and others. The State supplied pay and provision for the crew, though the sum paid did not always suffice for the purpose; it afterwards supplied the furni 1 ture of the vessel also. To lighten the expense, which amounted to between forty mince and a talent ( 133- 200), it became allowable, about 411 B.C., for two persons to share it. Afterwards, in 358, twenty symmdrlce (q.v.) were instituted, i.e. companies consisting of sixty citizens each, with a committee of the 300 wealthiest citizens at their head; the 300 distributed, the expense over the individual symmdrice in such sort that the cost of a single trireme was shared by a greater or less number of 1 citizens. Lastly, about B.C. 340, the inci dence of the burden was regulated by a law introduced by Demosthenes, whereby all citizens, with the exception of the poorer classes, bore the expense in proportion to their property. Thus property or rather, taxable capital amounting to ten talents imposed the obligation of equipping one vessel, twenty talents two vessels, and so on. Those who had less than ten talents were to club together and to make up that amount among them. The time of service lasted, as has been already stated, for one year. On its expiration, the trierarch, who had looked after the vessel, was responsible to the LogistcB (...
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