Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Embolum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EM'BOLUM (ἔμβολον). Properly, a Greek word Latinized (Pet. Sat. 30.), meaning the beak of a ship of war, expressed in Latin by the word ROSTRUM, under which it will be explained and illustrated.