Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rudens

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. 

RUD'ENS (κάλως). A rope; more especially intended to designate any part of the lighter cordage constituting the rigging of a vessel (Pacuv. ap. Coel. ad Cic. Fam. viii. 2. Virg. Aen. 1. 91.), employed about the mast, or used for raising and trimming the sails; in contradistinction to the heavier kinds, such as cables, hawseres, &c.; for example, the halyard, by which the sail was raised (Catull. lxiv. 235.), and down which the seaman slid from the yard to the deck (Ov. Met. iii. 616.), brail ropes (Virg. Aen. iii. 682.), sheets, or, perhaps, braces, or both. Id. x. 229.