one of the rowers on the lowest bench
one of the rowers on the lowest bench of a trireme, who had the shortest oars and the least pay, Sch. Ar. Ra. 1106.
The corpus record
θᾰλᾰμ-ίτης
thalamites · ὁ
one of the rowers on the lowest bench
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θαλαμίης · thalamiēs Herodotus, Histories 5.33.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5575)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.