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How to use trierarch in a sentence

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There, he was a trierarch in the Athenian relief fleet sent out to assist the admiral Conon, who was blockaded at Mytilene.
In 363 and 359 BC, he assumed the office of the trierarch, being responsible for the outfitting and maintenance of a trireme.
The captain of the trireme, the trierarch, was not a specialist, but a wealthy citizen who had volunteered or been appointed to take up this prestigious position.
Samian democrats learned of the conspiracy and notified four prominent Athenians: the generals Leon and Diomedon, the trierarch Thrasybulus, and Thrasyllus, at that time a hoplite in the ranks.
In the next year, however, he did sail as a trierarch in the scratch Athenian relief fleet sent out to relieve Conon, who had been blockaded with 40 triremes at Mytilene by Callicratidas.
After the Battle of Arginusae, in which he served as a trierarch, he was assigned to rescue Athenian sailors from sinking ships, but was prevented from doing so by a storm.
Examples from Classical Literature
Comus, the trierarch, was overeager, or he would have remembered that which he seemed to have forgotten.
The officers were the trierarch and next to him the helmsman, who was the navigating officer of the trireme.
At the period of which we treat each vessel had one trierarch.
So did not think the trierarch and the centurion on board the trireme.
The trierarch took the eagle and went and stood by the body of Lentulus.
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