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rēmex, ĭgis (gen. plur. remigium, Symm. Ep. 4, 7), m. [remus-ago], a rower, oarsman, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5. 35; id. Merc. 4, 2, 5; Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114; id. Att. 13, 21, 3; id. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 76; 2, 5, 33, § 86; Hor. Epod. 17, 16; Curt. 4, 5, 18.
Poet., of Charon, Sen. Herc. Fur. 557.
Of the fish that swallowed Jonah: remige inimico, Sedul. 1, 180.

      1. b. Remex, collect. for remiges, a bench of rowers, the oarsmen of a vessel (poet. and postAug.): vacuos sensit sine remige portus, Verg. A. 4, 588: Velocem Mnestheus agit acri remige Pristim, id. ib. 5, 116; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Ov. M 6, 445; 8, 103; id. H. 3, 153; Hor. Epod. 16, 57: non remigem, non socios navalis ad classem frequentis habiturum, Liv. 37, 10, 9; Tac. A. 4, 5: remex militis officia turbabat, Curt. 4, 3, 18: milite ac remige, id. 4, 5, 18; Vell. 2, 79, 1.

rēmĭgĭum, ii, n. [remex].

  1. I. Lit., a rowing: homines remigio sequi, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 55: olli remigio noctemque diemque fatigant, Verg. A. 8, 94: portus decem dierum remigio ab oppido distans (just before: abest a Ptolemaide quinque dierum navigatione), Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 174; 9, 3, 2, § 6.
  2. II. Meton. (abstr. pro concreto).
    1. A. The parts of a vessel that belong to the rowing of it, the oars, Cat. 64, 13; Verg. G. 1, 202; Hor C. 1, 14, 4; Tac. A. 2, 24; id. H. 3, 47; id. G. 44.
      Prov.: remigio veloque festinare, i. e. with all possible speed, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 5 (cf.: remis velisque; v. 1. remus, I. A.): meo remigio rem gero, i. e. I steer my own course, do just as I please, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 152 (v. l. meo remigio remigo; cf. Brix ad loc.).
      1. 2. Poet., of wings: remigi oblitae (aves), Lucr. 6, 743: volat ille per aëra magnum Remigio alarum, Verg. A. 1, 301; 6, 19 (mentioned in Quint. 8, 6, 18); Ov. M. 8, 228; id. A. A. 2, 45: (aquila) remigium dextrā laevāque porrigens, App. M. 6, p. 179 al. (cf. in the Gr. Aesch. Agam. 52: πτερύγων ἐρετμοῖσιν ἐρεσσόμενοι).
    2. B. Those that perform the rowing, the oarsmen, rowers, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: remigium classicique milites, tranquillo in altum evecti, Liv. 26, 51; 21, 22; 26, 39; 33, 48; 37, 11; Tac. A. 3, 1, 14, 39; Verg. A. 3, 471: remigium vitiosum Ulixei, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 63.