remulcum: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>rĕmulcum</b>: (rymulcum, acc. to the Gr., Amm. 18, 5, 6), i (for the [[most]] [[part]] [[only]] in abl.), n. [[ῥυμουλκέω]]>, [[nautical]] t. t.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[tow]]-[[rope]], or [[any]] [[other]] [[contrivance]] for towing: [[remulcum]] [[funis]], quo deligata [[navis]] magnā trahitur [[vice]] remi, Isid. Orig. 19, 4, 8: [[remulco]] est, cum scaphae remis [[navis]] magna trahitur, Fest. p. 279 Müll.: navem [[remulco]] abstraxit, Caes. B. C. 2, 23 fin.: submersam navim [[remulco]] adduxit, id. ib. 3, 40: naves onerarias [[remulco]] Alexandriam deducit, Auct. B. Alex. 11 fin.: navem [[remulco]] trahere, Liv. 25, 30; 32, 16. — [[Here]] prob. belongs the [[fragment]] of [[Sisenna]]: in [[altum]] [[remulco]] trahit, Sisenn. ap. Non. 57, 29 ([[where]] [[Nonius]] [[erroneously]] assumes a [[verb]], [[remulco]], āre; cf. [[supra]], the [[article]] of [[Festus]], [[where]] also [[remulco]] forms the heading); [[Valgius]] ap. Isid. l. l.; Aus. Idyll. 10, 41; id. Ep. 2, 9; Paul. Nol. Ep. 49. —Prov.: non contis nec rymulco, ut aiunt, sed velificatione plenā in rempublicam ferebantur, Amm. 18, 5, 6.