Lembus

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.^{[citation needed]} Philip V of Macedon used lembi during the First Macedonian War.^[4]

Notes

^ λέμβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
^ Wilkes, p. 157; Polybius, 2.3.
^ Wilkes, p. 163.
^ Walbank, 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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[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, p. 69, Polybius, 5.109.

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