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nauarchus, i, m. (less correctly nav-), = ναύαρχος, the master of a vessel, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 24, § 60; Tac. A. 15, 51; Inscr. Orell. 3615; 3624; Veg. Mil. 5, 2.

nauta (ante-class., poet., and late Lat. nāvĭta), ae, m. [for navita, from navis], a sailor, seaman, mariner: ego nautas eum non putabam habiturum, Cic. Att. 9, 3, 2; id. Fam. 16, 9, 4; nautas gubernatoresque comparari jubet, Caes. B. G. 3, 9: pavidus nauta, Hor. C. 1, 1, 14: nautae = mercatores, id. S. 1, 1, 29: permixtus nautis et furibus et fugitivis, Juv. 8, 174.
Uncontracted form navita (mostly poet.): nulla est voluptas navitis major, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 1; Cato ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.: timidi navitae, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Prop. 2, 1, 43: navita tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit, Verg. G. 1, 137: omnis navita ponto Umida vela legit, id. ib. 1, 372 sq.: navitas precum ejus (Arionis) commiseritum esse, Gell. 16, 19, 11; cf. Charon. Ap. M. 6, 20, p. 181; so, navita turpis aquae, Tib. 1, 10, 36: navita Porthmeus, Petr. poet. 121, 117.

Nāva, ae, m., a river of Germany which flows into the Rhine near Bingen, now the Nahe, Tac. H. 4, 70; Aus Mosell. 1.

nāvācŭlum, i, n. [navis], a harbor: navaculum, ναύσταθμον, Gloss. Philox.

nāvāle, is, v. navalis, II.

nāvālis, e, adj. [navis],

  1. I. of or belonging to ships, ship-, naval: pedestres navalesve pugnae, Cic. Sen. 5, 13; Liv. 26, 51, 6: bellum, id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: apparatus, id. Att. 10, 8, 3: disciplina et gloria navalis, id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54: fuga, by sea, Plin. 7, 45, 46, § 148: proelium, Gell. 10, 6, 2: castra, to protect the ships drawn up on land, Caes. B. G. 5, 22: in classe acieque navali esse, Liv. 26, 51, 8 Weissenb.: forma, the shape of a ship, Ov. F. 1, 229: corona, a naval crown, as the reward of a naval victory, Verg. A. 8, 684; cf.: navali coronā solet donari, qui primus in hostium navem armatus transilierit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 163 Müll.; so, navali cinctus honore caput, Ov. A. A. 3, 392: navali surgentes aere columnae, made of the brass from the beaks of captured ships, Verg. G. 3, 29: arbor, fit for ship-building, Plin. 13, 9, 17, § 61: stagnum, a basin in which to exhibit mock sea-fights, Tac. A. 4, 15: navalis Phoebus, so called because hegranted the victory at Actium, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 3; v. Actius and Actiacus: socii, sailors, seamen (chosen from the freedmen of the colonists and allies, and also from those of the colonists and allies themselves who had been in slavery; they were bound to a longer period of service and were of lower rank than the land troops; cf. Liv. 36, 2; 40, 18; 21, 50): postero die militibus navalibusque sociis convocatis, id. 26, 48; 26, 17; 32, 23; 26, 35; 24, 11.
    Sometimes the socii navales are distinguished from the seamen, Liv. 37, 10: navales pedes, contemptuously, galley-slaves, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 75. (Others understand by this expression ship-servants, cabin-boys. Non. 381, 393, calls the oars themselves navales pedes).
    Duumviri navales, two commissaries who were charged with the repairing and fitting out of a fleet, Liv. 9, 30; 40, 18; 26: navalis scriba, a ship’s scribe or secretary, Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.
  2. II. Subst.: nāvā-le, is, n. (in sing. only poet.), and nāvā-lĭa, ium, n. (gen. plur. navaliorum, Vitr. 5, 127; Inscr. Orell. 3627).
    1. A. A place where ships were built and repaired, a dock, dockyard (cf.: statio, portus): navalia, portus, aquarum ductus, etc., Cic. Off. 2, 17, 60: de navalium opere, id. de Or. 1, 14, 62: deripientque rates alii navalibus, Verg. A. 4, 593; Ov. M. 11, 455.
      In sing., haud aliter quam si siccum navale teneret (puppis), Ov. M. 3, 661; id. H. 18, 207.
      Esp. of the place in Rome, across the Tiber, where the dock-yards were situated, Liv. 3, 26; 8, 14, 12; 40, 51 et saep.
      Near them was the Navalis porta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 178 Müll.
    2. B. The requisites for fitting out a ship, tackling, rigging, Liv. 45, 23, 5; Verg. A. 11, 329; Plin. 16, 11, 21, § 52.

nāvanter, adv., v. navo fin.

nāvarchus, i, m., = ναύαρχος, v. nauarchus.

nāvē, adv., v. navus fin. * A.

1. nāvĭa, ae, f. [navis].

  1. I. A corruption of navis, a ship; in the proverb, aut caputa aut naviam for aut caput aut navim (v. caput), Aur. Vict. Orig. Gent. R. 3; Paul. Nol. 38, 73; cf. Macr. S. 1, 7.
  2. II. Transf., a bark, boat, canoe: harundinum fissa internodia, velut navia, binos et quaedam ternos etiam vehant, Mel. 3, 7.
    Also, a trough: navia lignum cavatum ut navis, quo in vindemiis uti solent, Paul. ex Fest. p. 169, 25 Müll.

2. Navia ficus, v. Navius.

nāvĭcella (naucella), ae, f. dim. [navis], a small vessel, a boat, skiff (postclass.): navicellae, quae piscium capiendorum causā paratae sunt, Dig. 33, 7, 17, § 1 (al. naucellae).

nāvĭcŭla, ae, f. dim. [navis], a small vessel, a boat, skiff: nos ad naviculas nostras descendimus, Cic. Ac. 2, 48, 148; Afran. ap. Non. 238, 25; Caes. B. C. 2, 3; cf. id. ib. 3, 104 fin.

nāvĭcŭlārĭa, v. navicularius.

nāvĭcŭlāris, e, adj. [navicula], of or relating to the shipping business (postclass.): res, Dig. 50, 4, 1, § 1.

nāvĭcŭlārĭus, a, um, adj. [navicula],

  1. I. of or belonging to a small ship, boat, or vessel (late Lat.): onus, Cod. Th. 13, 5, 12: PORTITOR, Inscr. Mur. 984, 1.
  2. II. Of or belonging to a ship-master: functio, Cod. Just. 11, 2, 3.
    Hence, subst.
    1. A. nāvĭcŭlārĭus, ii, m., a ship-owner who hires out vessels for money, a ship-master, Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 4; id. Att. 9, 3, 2: naviculariis nostris injuriosius tractatis, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11; cf.: mercatores, navicularii, id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 137; Tac. A. 12, 55.
    2. B. nāvĭcŭlārĭa, ae, f., the business of one who hired out small vessels for transporting passengers and goods, the shipping business: naviculariam facere, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18, § 46.

nāvĭcŭlor (naucŭlor), āri, v. dep. n. [navicula], to sail in a small vessel: Lucrino nauculatur in stagno, Mart. 3, 20, 20.

nāvĭfrăgus, a, um, adj. [navis-frango], causing shipwrecks, dangerous (poet.): navifragum Scylaceum, Verg. A. 3, 553: fretum, Ov. M. 14, 6: saxa, Stat. Th. 5, 415; cf. naufragus, I. B.

nāvĭgābĭlis, e, adj. [navigo], navigable: amnis, Liv. 38, 3: mare, id. 35, 44: fossa, Tac. A. 15, 42: litora, id. ib. 13, 53: flumen, Col. 1, 2, 3: fontes magnorum fluminum, Auct. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 76.

nāvĭgātĭo, ōnis, f. [navigo], a sailing, navigation: ex tuis litteris cognovi cursūs navigationum tuarum, Cic. Fam. 13, 68, 1: in portum ex longā navigatione venire, id. Sen. 19, 71: prima navigatio, id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 3: navigationi se committere, id. Fam. 16, 4, 1: celeri navigatione properare, Tac. H. 2, 81; 4, 49: maris, id. ib. 2, 53: diei navigatione distare, a day’s sail, Plin. 2, 75, 77, § 187: Aegyptia, id. 24, 6, 19, § 28.

nāvĭgātor, ōris, m. [navigo], a sailor, mariner, Quint. 5, 10, 27; Auct. Quint. Deel. 12, 23; Paul. Nol. ad Cyther. 397.

nāvĭger, ĕra, ĕrum, adj. [navis-gero].

  1. I. Ship-bearing, navigable: mare navigerum, Lucr. 1, 3: iter, Mart. 12, 99, 4.
  2. II. Sailing: navigera similitudo, the likeness of a vessel under sail; said of a sea-mussel, Plin. 9, 30, 49, § 94; v. nauplius.

nāvĭgĭŏlum, i, n. dim. [navigium], a small vessel, a bark. boat, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 15, 2; Auct. Bell. Al. 63, 2.

nāvĭgĭum, ii, n. [navigo], a vessel, a ship, bark, boat.

  1. I. Lit. (class.): navigia facere, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 152: navigium dissolutum, vel potius dissipatum, id. Att. 15, 11, 3: probum navigium, id. Ac. 2, 31, 100: luculentum, id. Att. 16, 4, 4: in eodem velut navigio participem esse periculi, Liv. 44, 22: Deucalion navigio montem ascendit, Juv. 1, 82.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. A float, raft (post-class.), Dig. 43, 12, 1, § 14.
    2. B. A sailing, navigation (ante- and post-class.): in omnes navigii dies, Dig. 45, 1, 122; ib. 43, 12, 1 med (but not Lucr. 5, 1006; v. Lachm. and Munro ad loc.).

nāvĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [navisago], to sail, set sail.

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. Neutr.: cum per anni tempus navigare poteris, ad nos veni, Cic. Fam. 16, 7: ex Asiā in Macedoniam, id. Fl. 14, 32: Syracusas, id. N. D. 3, 34, 83: in alto, id. Inv. 2, 51, 153: plenissimis velis, id. Dom. 10, 24: nactus idoneam tempestatem ad navigandum, Caes. B. G. 4, 23: e portu, to set sail, Quint. 4, 2, 42: quo tempore ceteri praetores consueverunt navigare, to go by sea, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 80: neve naviges, nisi explorate, id. Fam. 16, 8, 1.
      Of ships: utrum ista classis navigārit, Cic. Fl. 14, 32: decrevimus, ut classis in Italiam navigaret, id. ib. 13, 30; Ov. A. A. 2, 10.
      Of goods or freight: interest utrum ipsae merces periculo creditoris navigent, go, are transported by ship, Dig. 22, 2, 1.
      Prov.: navigare in portu, i. e. to be in safety, Ter. And. 3, 1, 22.
    2. B. Act., to sail over, navigate: cum Xerxes maria ambulavisset, terramque navigāsset, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112: Tyrrhenum aequor, Verg. A. 1, 67: aequor Ionium, Ov. M. 15, 50: Oceanum septentrionalem, Suet. Claud. 1: quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent, all their achievements in navigation, etc., Sall. C. 2, 7.
          1. (β) Pass.: totus hodie navigatur occidens: septentrionalis vero Oceanus magnā ex parte navigatus est, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 167; 36, 15, 24, § 104; Tac. G. 34; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 28.
          2. (γ) Impers.: iis enim ventis istim navigatur, Cic. Fam. 16, 7: si valebis, cum recte navigari poterit, tum naviges, id. ib. 16, 12, 6; Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 126.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. To sail, remove, proceed: quam celeriter belli impetus navigavit, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34: in Africam navigabat bellum, Flor. 2, 2, 17; 2, 8, 1.
    2. B. To swim, Ov. H. 19, 47.
    3. C. To flow: in ipso rapidum mare navigat ore, Manil. 5, 583.

nāvis, is (acc. sing. usually navem, Charis. 101 P.; Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 57; Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 174; Caes. B. C. 3, 39, 2 et saep.; but navim, Cic. Att. 7, 22, 1; Sall. J. 25, 5; Hor. C. 1, 32, 8; id. Ep. 2, 1, 114; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 41; Ov. M. 11, 663; 14, 218; Liv. 24, 34, 11; 40, 4, 11; Pers. 5, 141; Juv. 6, 98; Lact. 2, 7, 12 al.; abl. navi, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 73; Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 7; Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 159 et saep.; but nave, id. Inv. 2, 42, 124; id. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 64; id. Fam. 10, 31, 1; 14, 5, 1; Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 12; Cat. 64, 84; Verg. A. 5, 188; 487; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 200; Prop. 1, 8, 6; Ov. H. 13, 99; Liv. 5, 28, 2 et saep.; cf. Charis. p. 33 P.; Diom. 1, p. 283 P.; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 200 sq.; 216 sq.), f. [ναῦς; Sanscr. nau, the same], a ship (syn.: navigium).

  1. I. Lit.: navis longa, a ship of war, Liv. 24, 36: oneraria, a transport, id. 24, 40: mercatoria, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 2; praedatoria, id. Men. 2, 3, 87: praetoria, the admiral’s ship, id. 29, 25: tecta, id. 22, 21; or, constrata, having a deck, decked, id. 35, 46: aperta, open, without a deck, id. 32, 21: auri navem evertat gubernator, an paleae, laden with gold or chaff, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20: navem construere, id. Sen. 20, 72: triremis instar aedificata, id. Verr. 2, 5, 17, § 44: navem adornare, Caes. B. C. 1, 26: armare, id. B. G. 5, 1: reficere, id. ib. 4, 31: fabricari, Tac. A. 14, 29: deducere, to launch, Caes. B. G. 5, 23: deducere in aquam, Liv. 28, 17: moliri ab terrā, id. 28, 7: ex portu educere, Caes. B. C. 1, 57: subducere, id. B. G. 5, 11: subducere in aridum, id. ib. 4, 29: agere, to work a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114: mercibus implere, Juv. 14, 288: solvere, to set sail, Caes. B. C. 3, 6; so, naves leni vento solverunt, id. B. G. 4, 28: mea Hodie solutast navis, Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 16: navem appellere ad aliquem locum, to land, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3: applicare terrae, Liv. 28, 17: appellere litori, Curt. 4, 2, 24: navem fregit, was shipwrecked, cast away, Ter. And. 1, 3, 17: in portu evertere, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 174: impingere, Quint. 4, 1, 61: deprimere, Tac. H. 4, 79: gubernare et salvam in portu collocare, Cic. Pis. 9, 20: remis incitare, Caes. B. G. 4, 25: in navibus vehi, Cic. N. D. 3, 37, 89: e navi egredi, id. Vatin. 5, 12: lassus sum hercle e navi, from my voyage, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 173: navis cursum suum tenens, Cic. Planc. 39, 94: navem statuere, to heave to, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 57: navium tutela, the image of a deity placed on the stern of the vessel, under whose protection the ship was placed, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 1; cf. id. H. 16, 112; Val. Fl. 1, 301. The proper badge of a vessel, after which it was named, was placed on the prow: Aeneia puppis Prima tenet rostro Phrygios subjuncta leones. Verg. A. 10, 157; cf. id. ib. 5, 116 sq.: TRIREME MARTE, Inscr. Mur. 780, 5.
    Prov.: navibus atque quadrigis petere aliquid, i. e. with all one’s power, with might and main, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 28; cf. Juv. 9, 131: navem perforare quā ipse quis naviget, i. e. to do one’s self an injury, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 47: navem mortuo applicare, to rescue a drowned man from the water, i. e. to bring assistance when too late, Quint. Decl. 12, 23.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 1. = pudenda muliebria, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 51; id. Rud. 2, 3, 24; Macr. S. 2, 5.
      2. 2. Navis Argolica, or simply Navis, the ship Argo, placed among the constellations, Cic. Arat. 277.
  2. II. Trop., of political affairs: una navis est jam bonorum omnium, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 5: navis rei publicae fluctuans in alto tempestatibus seditionum ac discordiarum, id. Sest. 20, 46.

Nāvĭsalvĭa (sc. dea), ae, f., the name under which divine honors were paid at Rome, in the vestibule of the temple of the Deum Mater, to the vestal Claudia Quinta, who, in the year of Rome 549, drew up the Tiber the ship which brought the image of Cybele from Pessinus to Rome (cf. Liv. 29, 14; Tac. A. 4, 64; Val. Max. 1, 8, 11), Inscr. Orell. 1905; 1906; 2403.

nāvĭta, v. nauta.

nāvĭtas (gnāv-), ātis, f. [navus], promptness, assiduity, zeal: istam operam tuam, navitatem, animum in rem publicam, etc., Cic. Fam. 10, 25, 1: gnavitas studiosa, Arn. 1, p. 3.

nāvĭter, adv., v. navus fin. B.

nāvĭtĭes, ēi, f. [navus], diligence, zeal: navities, ἀρετή, Gloss. Philox.

Navĭus, ii, m., a Roman proper name. Especially celebrated is Attus Navius, an augur under Tarquinius Priscus, who cut a stone in two with a razor, Liv. 1, 36; Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 9; id. Div. 1, 17, 31 sq.; Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 77.
Hence, Navĭus, a, um, adj., Navian: Navia ficus, a fig-tree in the Comitium at Rome, on the spot where Navius cut the stone in two with a razor. As long as it flourished Roman liberty was to endure, Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 77; Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.

nāvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [navus], to do, perform, or accomplish a thing with zeal and diligence (class.): nemo est tam afflictus, quin possit navare aliquid et efficere, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 7: navare operam alicui, to come to one’s assistance, to serve or assist one: utinam potuissem tibi operam meam studiumque navare, id. ib. 15, 12, 2: operam rei publicae, id. ib. 10, 25, 2; cf. id. Att. 1, 17, 4: jam mihi videor navāsse operam, quod huc venerim, to have succeeded in my endeavors, id. de Or. 2, 7, 26: fortiter in acie navare operam, to act vigorously, Liv. 7, 16; 28, 35: navandae operae avidior, Tac. A. 3, 42; for which: opus navare, Val. Fl. 3, 144: quam vellem Bruto studium tuum navare potuisses! to show, exhibit, Cic. Att. 15, 4, 5; cf.: si suffragandi studia non navant, id. Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 5, 18: benevolentiam, id. Fam. 3, 10, 3: bellum, to prosecute vigorously, Tac. H. 3, 25: flagitium, to commit, perpetrate, id. ib. 4, 59: rem publicam, to serve the state, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5 (dub.; B. and K. gubernare).
Hence, adv.: nā-vanter, with zeal, Cassiod. Var. 2, 23 al.

nāvus (gnāvus), a, um, adj. [Sanscr. gnā, know; Gr. γιγνώσκω; cf. Lat. notus, gnarus; for signif. cf. Germ. kennen and können], busy, diligent, assiduous, active (syn.: impiger, industrius, sedulus; class.): navus repertus homo, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll. (Ann. v. 183 Vahl.): homo gnavus et industrius, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 21, § 53; id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18: aratores, id. Verr. 2, 3, 51, § 120: filius, id. ib. 2, 3, 69. § 161: vir gnavus, agilis, providus, Vell. 2, 105, 2: rudimenta, Sil. 1, 549: timor, that renders industrious, id. 7, 349.
Comp.: in inquirendis gnaviores quam in componendis, Amm. 26, 4, 4: hostium naviores, Jul. Val. Res Gest. Alex. 1, 41.
Hence, adv., in two forms.

  1. * A. nāvē (gnāvē), diligently, actively, zealously (ante-class.): nave agere oportet quod agas, non ductarier, Plaut. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.; Sall. J. 77, 3.
  2. B. nāvĭter (gnāvĭter; class.).
    1. 1. Diligently, actively, zealously: bene naviter ire, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.: naviter versari in provinciā, Gell. 15, 4, 3: pugnare, Liv. 10, 39: expedire, id. 24, 23: bellum gerere, id. 30, 4.
    2. 2. Transf., in gen., wholly, completely: bene et naviter impudens, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 3: plenum, Lucr. 1, 525.