A "...trireme..." (p. 545) is a ship with three banks of oars.
In History
During the northern revolt, the Emperor Vespasian:
"'...dispatched an able general, Petillius Cerialis, to take charge in the North.'" (p. 489)
Under Cerialis, who had previously served in Britain during Boadicea's rebellion, the Romans wore down the uncoordinated Germans until Cerialis and the rebel leader, Burhmund, standing on opposite sides of a bridge across the Ijssel from which workmen had removed the middle, negotiated a settlement.
The Tacitus One text, describing the timeline guarded by the Time Patrol, breaks off at that point, although it is known from other sources that the rebels received a fair deal.
During the fighting, German bands, attacking a Roman camp on the Rhine, captured several ships, including the Praetorian trireme, but Cerialis, elsewhere at the time, arrived almost naked to take charge. However, his trireme, towed up the Lippe, was given to Veleda.
In Fiction
Before the meeting at the Ijssel, Everardus the Goth (Everard of the Patrol) had had preliminary discussions with Cerialis. Thus, the Patrol had found it necessary to intervene directly in order to keep events on track through an "...unstable space-time zone..." (p. 629).
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