Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Monoxylus

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. 

MONOX'YLUS (μονόξυλος). Literally, made out of a single piece of wood; applied adjectively to any small boat scooped out of a solid trunk, such as the linter, alveus, scaphula (Plin. H. N. vi. 26.); and, absolutely, as the name of a small broad-bottomed boat, employed by the Roman soldiers in making bridges over unfordable rivers. A certain number of these were usually transported with an army upon waggons (Veget. Mil. iii. 7.) and are repeatedly represented on the columns of Trajan and Antonine, from the latter of which the annexed example (Monoxylus/1.1) is taken.

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  Monoxylus/1.1