• SHIPWRECK

1. s. naufragium. To suffer shipwreck, naufragium facore (Cic., Nep.); navem frangere (Terentianus): [naufragium pati, Sen., Trag.: ☞ not to be followed]. To perish by shipwreck, naufragio perire, interire (Cic., Caes.); naufragio intercipi (Tac.). One who has suffered shipwreck, naufragus: qui naufragium fecit; also, ejectus only. Also figuratively; e.g., if these men remain at the helm of affairs, there is reason to fear a general shipwreck, qui nisi a gubernaculo recesserint, maximum ab universo naufragio periculum est (Cic.). In the shipwreck of the state, in naufragio reipublicae.

2. v. Vid: To WRECK.