Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Baris

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BA'RIS (βᾶρις). A flat-bottomed boat used upon the Nile, for the transport of merchandise, and more especially for conveying a dead body across the river to the place of sepulture, in the funeral procession. (Herod. ii. 96. Diodor. i. 96.) The illustration (Baris/1.1) shows one of these boats with a mummy placed in it, from an Egyptian painting. When Propertius (iii. 11. 44.) applies the name to the war vessels of Antony and Cleopatra, it is to be understood in a sense of extreme irony and contempt.

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  Baris/1.1