Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Nauclerus

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. 

NAUCLE'RUS (ναύκληρος). A Greek ship-owner, who gained his subsistence by carrying freights of merchandize and passengers from place to place, himself generally acting as the skipper or captain of his own vessel. Isidor. Orig. xix. 1. 3. Plaut. Mil. iv. 3. 16. iv. 6. 68. Xen. Mem. iii. 9. 11.