Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Urinator

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. 

URINA'TOR (κολυμβητής, ἀρνευτήρ). A diver, trained to swim under water, for the purpose of recovering articles lost by shipwreck; sometimes taken on board ships to assist in raising the anchor, or to damage the hull of an enemy's vessel in action. Liv. xliv. 10. Callistrat. Dig. 14. 2. 4. Compare Manil. v. 431 — 435. Lucan. iii. 697 — 708.

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