Domitia

Domitia by S. Baring-Gould. Flashes as of lightning shot from each side of a galley as she was being rowed into port. She was a bireme that is to say had two tiers of oars; and as simultaneously the double sets were lifted held for a moment suspended wet with brine feathered and again dipped every single blade gleamed reflecting the declining western sun and together formed a flash from each side of the vessel of a sheaf of rays.. The bireme was approaching the entrance to the harbor of Cenchræa.. The one white sail was filled with what little wind breathed and it shone against a sapphire sea like a moon.