Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

792 NAVIS. NATJMACHIA.
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nIREMIS.
A. Prora, 7rpcpa.' K. Malus, loTdi.
B. Oculus, ofOa2poiS. L. Velum, larT-s.
C. Rostrum, EjUgOAoS. M. Antenna, Kcepana,':par.
D. Cheniseus, X7vtleuos. N. Cornua, iuaposcEpaca.
E. Puppis, 7rp6vw. 0. O. CeruChi, Kcepo3XO0.
F. Aplustre, &lpAa'rov, with the pole containing P. CarcesiUmn, apXopxsev.
the fascia or taenia. Q. icdaol, Kaksla.
G. rpd~qV. It. R rpoTVorE.
H. Remi, sc67rat. S. Pedes, 7r48es.
1. Gubernaculum,'7r5&Aeov. T. Opi/ra, ireipac.
war (naves turritae), and fought upon them in the NAU MA'CHIA, was the name given to the re.
same manner as if they were standing upon the presentation of a sea-fight among the Romans, and
walls of a fortress. Some of such naves turritae also to the place where such engagements took
occur in the woodcuts given above. (Flor. I. c.; place. These fights were sometimes exhibited in
Plut. Anton. 33; Dion Cass. xxxii. 33; Plin. H. N. the Circus or Amphitheatre, sufficient water being
xxxii. 1; comp. Caes. de Bell. Gall. iii. 14; Dion introduced to float ships, but more generally in
Cass. xxxix. 43; Veget. de Re lilit. v. 14, &c.) buildings especially devoted to this purpose. The
For a more detailed account of the ships and first representation of a sea-fight on an extensive
navigation of the ancients, see Scheffer, De Militia scale was exhibited by Julius Caesar, who caused
Navyali, Upsala, 1654; Berghaus, Geschicahte der a lake to be dug for the purpose in a part of the
Sciff'fahrtskunde der vornelmnsten Vklcer des Al- Campus Martius, called by Suetonius the " Lesser
terthums; Benedict, Gesch. der Sch1ifffahrt und des Codeta" (Dion Cass. xliii. 23; Suet. Jul. Caes.
Handels der Alten; Howell, On the War- galleys of 39); this lake was afterwards filled up in the time
the Ancients; A. Jal, Arclheologie 2Lavale, Paris, of Augustus on account of the malaria arising from
1840; and for the Attic navy especially, Bickh's the stagnant water in it. (Dion Cass. xlv. 17.)
Urkunden tiber das geewzesen des Atischen Slaates, Augustus also dug a lake (stagnumz) near the Tiber
Berlin, 1840; K. Haltaus, Gesclichte Roms -im for the same purpose, and planted around it a grove
Zeitalter der Punisclhen Krsiege, Leipzig, 1846, of trees (nemus). (Suet. Aug. 43; Tacit. Ann. xii.
p. 607, &c.) [L, S.] 56, xiv. 15.) - Thij nanumachia was the first per