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Iam validam Īlioneī nāvem, iam fortis Achātī, et quā vectus Abās, et quā grandaevus Alētēs, vīcit hiems .
Now the sturdy ship of Ilioneus, now of brave Achates, and by which Abas has been carried, and by which old Aletes : the storm defeats . (The storm at sea destroys the Trojan fleet; the passage exemplifies ellipsis, since it refers to four different ships, yet uses the word “navem” only once.)
“navis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“navis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
navis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
navis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to have a powerful navy: navibus plurimum posse
much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
(ambiguous) a cutter: navis actuaria
(ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa
(ambiguous) a transport or cargo-boat: navis oneraria
(ambiguous) a merchantman: navis mercatoria
(ambiguous) to build a ship, a fleet: navem, classem aedificare, facere, efficere, instituere
(ambiguous) to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere
(ambiguous) to launch a boat: navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
(ambiguous) to haul up a boat: navem subducere (in aridum)
(ambiguous) to repair a boat: navem reficere
(ambiguous) to embark: navem conscendere, ascendere
(ambiguous) to embark an army: exercitum in naves imponere (Liv. 22. 19)
(ambiguous) ships of last year: naves annotinae
(ambiguous) to weigh anchor, sail: navem (naves) solvere
(ambiguous) the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
(ambiguous) to row: navem remis agere or propellere
(ambiguous) to row hard: navem remis concitare, incitare
(ambiguous) to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
(ambiguous) the ship strikes on the rocks: navis ad scopulos alliditur (B. C. 3. 27)
(ambiguous) to land (of people): appellere navem (ad terram, litus)
(ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves ad ancoras deligare (B. G. 4. 29)
(ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
(ambiguous) to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
(ambiguous) the admiral's ship; the flagship: navis praetoria (Liv. 21. 49)
(ambiguous) to clear for action: navem expedire
(ambiguous) to charge, ram a boat: navem rostro percutere
(ambiguous) to board and capture a boat: navem expugnare
(ambiguous) to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
(ambiguous) to throw grappling irons on board; to board: copulas, manus ferreas (in navem) inicere
(ambiguous) to throw grappling irons on board; to board: in navem (hostium) transcendere
(ambiguous) to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere
“navis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“navis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
