Note 107 — GREECE BEYOND PELOPONNESUS. (continued 5)

“The lembi were privateers of the Illyrians with one very large lateen sail; they were probably very quick boats, able to sail very sharply with the wind, and requiring a strong crew and bold sailors. They were the same ships as those called by the Romans Liburnicae, which more and more supplanted the place of triremes, quadriremes, and quinqueremes.”