cumbae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cumba, cumbae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
skiff, small boat; (esp. that in which Charon ferried the dead across the Styx);
dat. sg.gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- D
Satura XII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...trunca puppe magister interiora petit Baianae peruia cumbae tuti stagna sinus, gaudent ubi uertice raso garrula securi narrare..." - D
Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...tardos et longo frigore pingues. destinat hoc monstrum cumbae linique magister pontifici summo. quis enim proponere talem..." - D
Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...gurgite nigras, atque una transire uadum tot milia cumba nec pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere lauantur..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...hinc fusis speciosa uelis strata ludenti patuere cumbae, et uacat mersos numerare pisces hic ubi ingenti modo..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...pandit et omnis explicat alas; quique capaci turbida cumba flumina seruat durus senio nauita crudo, uix assiduo bracchia..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...umbras, nate, tumultus manesque tenet? fugit abducta nauita cumba et Centauris Thessala motis ferit attonitos ungula manes anguesque..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...regum referens inclita remos quaeritur Argo++ quaelibet altum cumba pererrat. Terminus omnis motus et urbes muros terra posuere..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tenet omnia Nilus, 135conseritur bibula Memphitis cumba papyro.his ratibus traiecta manus festinat utrimquesuccisum curuare nemus, fluuiique ferocisincrementa timens..."