[137] North, Examen, p. 225.
[138] Life of Calamy, p. 120.
[139] Greece, p. 74.
[140] Thucyd. vii. 87.
[141] Thucyd. vi. 1.
[142] Thucyd. vi. 24.
[143] τριήραριαρχοι The heavy expense of equipping ships of war was thrown chiefly upon individuals of wealth. Sometimes, as here, the state provided ships, and the trierarch only the equipment; at others the trierarch was obliged to build the vessels. The subject is too intricate to be treated in a note; the curious reader will find it fully handled in Wolff’s Prolegomena to the Oration against Leptines. See also a short notice in Dr. Arnold’s note, vi. 31.
[144] About nine–pence halfpenny.
[145] ὑπηρεσίας. Petty officers, as the pilot, boatswain, &c. See Arnold’s notes on the passage.
[146] Θρανίται. There being three banks of oars one above another, the uppermost were called Thranitæ, the middlemost Zeugitæ, and the lowest Thalamitæ, whereof the thranitæ managed the longest oar, and therefore in respect of their greater labour might deserve a greater pay.