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That, I think,
would be the best way of providing and organizing the money, the hulls, the
trierarchs, and the calling in of the ships' gear.1I now proceed to describe a
clear and easy way of manning the ships. I suggest that the generals should
divide the dockyards into ten areas, so arranging it that there may be dock-room
in each for thirty ships, as close together as possible, and that when they have
done this, they should apportion two boards and thirty galleys to each area, and
then assign the tribes by lot to the areas.
1 The following table may make this paragraph clearer. Column A represents the totals, B the boards, C the groups.
| A | B | C | |
| 300 | 15 | ||
| No. of ships required | 200 | 10 | 2 |
| 100 | 5 | 1 | |
| No. of trierarchs | 1200 | 60 | 12 |
| Capital represented (in talents) | 6000 | 300 | 60 |
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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