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Lembus

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A lembus (from Greek λέμβος lembos^[1]) was an ancient Illyrian galley, with a single bank of oars and no sails. It was small and light, with a low freeboard. It was a fast and maneuverable warship, capable of carrying 50 men in addition to the rowers.^[2] It was the galley used by Illyrian pirates.^[3] Illyrians used them at Medion under Agron, and at Elis, Messene, Phoenice, Issa, Epidamnus, Apollonia, Corcyra and Paxus under Teuta.{{fact|date=December 2017}} Philip V of Macedon used lembi during the First Macedonian War.^[4]

Notes

1. ^λέμβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
2. ^Wilkes, p. 157; Polybius, 2.3.
3. ^Wilkes, p. 163.
4. ^Walbank, [https://books.google.com/books?id=o-EaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 p. 69], Polybius, 5.109.

References

Polybius, Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator); London, New York. Macmillan (1889); Reprint Bloomington (1962).
Walbank, F. W., Philip V of Macedon Cambridge University Press, 2013. {{ISBN| 9781107630604}}.
Wilkes, John, The Illyrians (Peoples of Europe), Blackwell Publishers, (December 1, 1995) {{ISBN|0-631-19807-5}}

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