Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ponto

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. 

PONTO. A large flat-bottomed craft, more especially employed by the Gauls (Caes. B. C. iii. 29.), and intended for the transport of passengers, soldiers, or cattle across rivers (Paul. Dig. 8. 3. 38. Isidor. Orig. xix. 1. 24.). The example (Ponto/1.1) is from a painting in the Nasonian sepulchre; and the illustration on the opposite column exhibits a man on horseback entering a vessel of the nature described.

2. A pontoon, formed by a flooring, of planks laid between two boats with sharp heads (lintres), so as to form a floating bridge for transport across a river It was attached by a running rope, sliding on a transverse one, stretched over-head athwart the stream, and thus driven over by the simple action of the current, as still seen on the Po, Tiber, and other large rivers. Auson. Idyll. xii. 20.

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  Ponto/1.1