I.a small fastsailing vessel with a sharp prow, a pinnace, yacht, cutter: “lembus genus navicellae velocissimae, quod et dromonis nomine appellamus,” Fulg. Exp. Serm. 564, 6; Att. ap. Non. 534, 5: “celerare lembum,” Turp. ib. 7: “lembo advehitur pauxillulo,” Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 81: “ascendi in lembum,” id. ib. 2, 1, 35: “ducit lembum jam dierectum navis praeditoria,” id. Men. 2, 3, 87: “classis lemborum,” Liv. 45, 10; 34, 35: “qui adverso vix flumine lembum Remigiis subigit,” Verg. G. 1, 201: “piratici lembi,” Curt. 4, 5, 18.
lembus , i, m., = λέμβος,