Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Navia

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. 

NA'VIA. A small boat, like the alveus, linter, or monoxylus. Macrob. Sat. i. 7.

2. Capita aut navia. An expression used by the Roman boys when tossing up, corresponding with our "heads or tails," instead of which they cried "heads or vessels," because the oldest coins, the As and Semissis, had the head of Janus for a device on one side, and the prow of a ship on the reverse, as shown by the annexed example (Navia/2.1), representing an original half as. Macrob. Sat. i. 7.

3. A shallow trough, excavated from a single trunk of wood, like a boat, especially employed at the vintage. Festus s. v.

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  Navia/2.1