aground Copy link • aground: Phr.: the light skiffs were a., leves cymbae sidebant, Liv.: a ship having got a., navis cum per vada haesisset, Tac.: they ran their ships a. at Chios, ad Chium naves ejecere, Liv.: to run a ship a. on shallows or rocks (vadis, scopulis) navem impingere, Quint. 4, 1, 61.
AGROUND Copy link • AGROUNDTo run aground, vado, in vadum or litoribus illidi (to run on a sand-bank or the shore): in litus ejici (to be stranded and wrecked): in terram deferri (to run ashore). The fleet ran aground, and was wrecked near the Balearic Islands, classis ad Baleares ejicitur. To be aground, sidere (to touch the bottom, and so stick fast). Figuratively, to be aground; i. e., in difficulty, unable to proceed, in luto esse (Plaut.): haerere, haesitare (Ter.): difficultatibus affectum esse := to be in debt, aere alieno obrutum or demersum esse.