naufragium

naufrăgĭum, ii, n. [for navifragium, from navis-frango], a shipwreck.

I.

Lit.:

multi naufragia fecerunt,

Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 1:

naufragio perire,

id. Deiot. 9, 25:

naufragio interire,

Caes. B. C. 3, 27:

naufragio interceptus,

Tac. A. 14, 3; Flor. 3, 10, 7:

nullum conferri posse Naufragium velis ardentibus,

Juv. 12, 22:

pati,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 118.—Prov.:

naufragia alicujus ex terrā intueri,

to behold the ruin of others from a position of safety, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 4 (cf. Lucr. 2, 1):

naufragium in portu facere,

i. e. to fail when on the verge of success, Quint. Decl. 12, 23.—

B.

Poet., transf.

1.

A storm:

naufragiis magnis multisque coörtis,

Lucr. 2, 552.—

2.

The remains of a shipwreck, a wreck:

Eurus Naufragium spargens operit freta,

Sil. 10, 323.—

II.

Trop., shipwreck, ruin, loss, destruction:

naufragium fortunarum,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 25:

luculenti patrimonii,

id. Phil. 12, 8, 19:

rei familiaris,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 5:

cum Gallica gens per Italiam naufragia sua latius traheret,

defeats, Flor. 1, 13, 19: tabula ex naufragio, lit. a plank on which a shipwrecked person saves himself; hence, a means of deliverance, a solace, Cic. Att. 4, 18, 3.—

B.

Transf., the shattered remains, a wreck:

naufragia Caesaris amicorum,

Cic. Phil. 13, 2, 3: colligere naufragium rei publicae. id. Sest. 6, 15:

credo mollia naufragiis litora posse dari,

Ov. P. 1, 2, 62; 2, 9, 9.