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|lshtext=<b>nauta</b>: ([[ante]]-[[class]]., [[poet]]., and [[late]] Lat. nāvĭta), ae, m. for [[navita]], from [[navis]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[sailor]], [[seaman]], [[mariner]]: ego nautas eum non putabam habiturum, Cic. Att. 9, 3, 2; id. Fam. 16, 9, 4; nautas gubernatoresque comparari jubet, Caes. B. G. 3, 9: [[pavidus]] [[nauta]], Hor. C. 1, 1, 14: nautae = mercatores, id. S. 1, 1, 29: [[permixtus]] nautis et furibus et fugitivis, Juv. 8, 174.—Uncontracted form [[navita]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): nulla est [[voluptas]] navitis major, Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 1; [[Cato]] ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.: timidi navitae, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: [[navita]] de ventis, de tauris narrat [[arator]], Prop. 2, 1, 43: [[navita]] tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit, Verg. G. 1, 137: [[omnis]] [[navita]] [[ponto]] Umida [[vela]] legit, id. ib. 1, 372 sq.: [[navitas]] precum ejus (Arionis) commiseritum esse, Gell. 16, 19, 11; cf. [[Charon]]. Ap. M. 6, 20, p. 181; so, [[navita]] [[turpis]] aquae, Tib. 1, 10, 36: [[navita]] [[Porthmeus]], Petr. [[poet]]. 121, 117.
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