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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Naumachia

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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. 

NAUMACH'IA (ναυμαχία). A naval engagement; but in Latin usually applied to the representation of a sea-fight, exhibited as an entertainment to the people of Rome, in an artificial piece of water made for the purpose. Suet. Claud. 21. Jul. 44. Nero, 12.

2. An edifice constructed for the exhibition of sham fights, in imitation of naval engagements (Suet. Tib. 72. Tit. 7.); of which there were several in the city of Rome; consisting of a large basin of water, surrounded by an architectural elevation, containing seats for spectators, simililary disposed to those in the Circus or Amphitheatre; as shown by the annexed example (Naumachia/1.1) from a silver medal of the Emperor Domitian.

  • Naumachia/1.1
    Naumachia/1.1

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