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	penteconter ("50-oared"), a fast galley propelled by 50 oars-men, 25 to a side, working in a single row.
	This was a pure warship, not a merchant-man. The length of a big penteconter was probably somewhere around 38 meters, which is quite near to the maximum one can achieve with the available materials.
	The lower row worked just as in the penteconter: The rowers were sitting towards the center of the ship, and the oars fulcrum was fixed on the rail.

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