ship (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. nāvis, is, f. (gen. term, a s. of any kind)2. nāvĭgium (a smaller s.; in later Latin used as gen. term for navis) • ship (subs.): 1. nāvis, is, f. (gen. term, a s. of any kind): s.s of war, n. longae, Caes. B. G. 4, 22: s.s of burden, transport s.s., n. onerariae, ib. 4, 22: called also naves rotundae (from their form): the admiral's s., n. praetoria, Liv. 29, 25: a decked s., n. tecta, id. 22, 21, also n. constrata, id. 35, 46: a s. without a deck, n. aperta, id. 32, 21: a s. laden with gold, chaff, etc., n. auri, paleae, etc., Cic. Parad. 3, 1: to build a s., n. construere, id. de Sen. 20, 72: also, n. aedificare, Caes. B. G. 5, init.; n. facere, ib.; n. fabricari, Tac. A. 14, 29: to fit out a s., n. adornare, Caes. B. C. 1, 26; n. armare, id. B. G. 5, 1: to launch a s., n. in aquam deducere, Liv. 28, 17; or, simply, n. deducere, Caes. B. G. 5, 23; or, n. ab terra moliri, Liv. 28, 7, fin.: to work a s., n. agere, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114: to bring a s. to land at any place, n. appellere ad aliquem locum, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 4; n. terrae applicare, Liv. 28, 17: to sink a s., n. deprimere, Caes. B. C. 2, 7: to sail in a s., in nave vehi, Cic. N. D. 3, 37, 89. Fig.: the s. of the Republic, n. reipublicae, Cic. Sext. 20, 46. 2. nāvĭgium (a smaller s.; in later Latin used as gen. term for navis): to build s.s, navigia facere, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 152: reconnoitring s.s, speculatoria navigia, Caes. B. G. 4, 16, fin.: transport s.s, navigia vectoria, ib. 5, 8, fin. Other special terms are, corbita (a slow sailing s. of burden): Cic. Att. 16, 6: gaulus (= Gr. γαυλός; a round merchant vessel used by the Phoenicians): Fest.: cercūrus (= Gr. κέρκουρος; a kind of light s. peculiar to the Cyprians): Liv. 33, 19, fin.: Plin. hippăgōgi, orum (= Gr. ἱππαγωγοί; vessels for transporting horses: only in pl.): Liv. 44, 28: actuāria or actuārium (rare in this absolute use without navis, a swift sailing s.): Caes. Dim. actuāriōlum (a small swift vessel impelled by oars): Cic. Att. 10, 11, 3. [N.B.--The following words are used in the sense of navis by the poets: (1.) cărīna (lit. the keel of a s.): a treacherous station for s.s, statio male fida carinis, Virg. Aen. 2, 23: Hor. (2.) puppis, is, f. (lit. the stern or poop of a s.): the swift s.s, p. citae, Hor. Epod. 9, 20: among a thousand barks thy s. shall be thousandth, inter mille rates tua sit millesima p., Ov. H. 13, 97. Virg. (3.) rătis (lit. a raft, float): they have placed curved keels on the s.s, pandas ratibus posuere carinas, Virg. G. 2, 445: Hor. (4.) pīnus, ūs and i, f. (lit. a pine; hence anything made out of pine wood, a s.): hither the s. Argo has not reached, non huc Argoo contendit p., Hor. Ep. 16, 57: a s. driven by the headlong north-wind, acta praecipiti p. borea, Ov. H. 2, 185: Virg.]