Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Linter

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. 

LINTER. A boat used chiefly in marshy places, or waters abounding in shallows (Tibull. ii. 5. 34.); for the transport of produce upon rivers, or of cattle and soldiers across them (Liv. xxi. 27.); for supporting a bridge of boats (Caes. B. G. i. 12.); and other similar purposes. It was rowed with oars (Caes. B. G. vii. 60.), not punted; and, as it had but a slight draught, without being flat-bottomed, could not have been very steady in the water; whence Cicero (Brut. 60.) quizzes an orator who swayed his body to and fro while speaking, by saying that he made use of a linter for his pulpit. The example (Linter/1.1) represents a Roman soldier transporting wine casks across a river in one of these boats, from the Column of Trajan.

2. A tray or trough employed at the vintage for carrying grapes from the vineyard to the vat in which the juice was trodden out by the feet; doubtless so named from its resemblance in form to the boat just described. Cato, R. R. xi. 5. Tibull. i. 5. 23. Virg. Georg. i. 262.

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