Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cymba

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

CYM'BA (κύμβη). A small boat used upon rivers, and by fishermen, rising at both ends, so as to form a hollow in the centre, whence distinguished by the epithet adunca (Ovid. Met. i. 293.), or concava. (Ovid. Am. iii. 6. 4.) It was usually rowed by one man, as in the example (Cymba/1.1), from an ancient Roman painting, or by two at the most; and is the name especially given to Charon's bark. Hor. Od. ii. 3. 28. Virg. Aen. vi. 303.

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  Cymba/1.1