Note 072 Even of fifteen and sixteen rows of oars, in the navy of Demetrius Poliorcetes. These were for real use: the forty rows of Ptolemy Philadelphus were applied to a floating palace, whose tonnage, according to Dr. Arbuthnot, (Tables of Ancient Coins, &c., p. 231 - 236,) is compared as 4 1/2 to 1 with an English 100 gun ship.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 53