cumbas
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);
acc. pl.
Examples
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."