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rēmex , ĭgis (
I.gen. plur. remigium, Symm. Ep. 4, 7), m. remus-ago, a rower, oarsman, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5. 35; id. Merc. 4, 2, 5; Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114; id. Att. 13, 21, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 76; 2, 5, 33, § 86; Hor. Epod. 17, 16; Curt. 4, 5, 18.—Poet., of Charon, Sen. Herc. Fur. 557.—Of the fish that swallowed Jonah: “remige inimico,” Sedul. 1, 180.—
b. Remex, collect. for remiges, a bench of rowers, the oarsmen of a vessel (poet. and postAug.): “vacuos sensit sine remige portus,” Verg. A. 4, 588: “Velocem Mnestheus agit acri remige Pristim,” id. ib. 5, 116; Prop. 3, 12 (4, 11), 34; Ov. M 6, 445; 8, 103; id. H. 3, 153; Hor. Epod. 16, 57: “non remigem, non socios navalis ad classem frequentis habiturum,” Liv. 37, 10, 9; Tac. A. 4, 5: remex militis officia turbabat, Curt. 4, 3, 18: “milite ac remige,” id. 4, 5, 18; Vell. 2, 79, 1.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.21.3
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.76
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 5.5
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.588
    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.5
    • Plautus, Mercator, 4.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 10.9
    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, 557
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.55
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 3.12
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.3.18
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.5.18
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