nauta

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.