Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Agea

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. 

AGE'A. The passage or gangway by which the boatswain (hortator) approached the rowers (Isidor. Orig. xix. 2. 4. Ennius, ap. Isidor. l. c.); also termed aditus in less technical language. Ovid. Met. iii. 623.