navalis

nāvālis, e, adj. [navis], 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.—

II.

Subst.: nāvā-le, is, n. (in sing. only poet. ), and nāvā-lĭa, ium, n. ( gen. plur. navaliorum, Vitr. 5, 127; Inscr. Orell. 3627).

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.—

B.

The requisites for fitting out a ship, [p. 1192] tackling, rigging, Liv. 45, 23, 5; Verg. A. 11, 329; Plin. 16, 11, 21, § 52.