I.a tow-rope, or any other contrivance for towing: “remulcum funis, quo deligata navis magnā trahitur vice remi,” Isid. Orig. 19, 4, 8: “remulco est, cum scaphae remis navis magna trahitur,” Fest. p. 279 Müll.: “navem remulco abstraxit,” Caes. B. C. 2, 23 fin.: “submersam navim remulco adduxit,” id. ib. 3, 40: naves onerarias remulco Alexandriam deducit, Auct. B. Alex. 11 fin.: “navem remulco trahere,” Liv. 25, 30; 32, 16. — Here prob. belongs the fragment of Sisenna: in altum remulco trahit, Sisenn. ap. Non. 57, 29 (where Nonius erroneously assumes a verb, remulco, āre; cf. supra, the article of Festus, where also remulco forms the heading); Valgius ap. Isid. l. l.; Aus. Idyll. 10, 41; id. Ep. 2, 9; Paul. Nol. Ep. 49. —Prov.: “non contis nec rymulco, ut aiunt, sed velificatione plenā in rempublicam ferebantur,” Amm. 18, 5, 6.
rĕmulcum (rymulcum , acc. to the Gr., Amm. 18, 5, 6), i (for the most part only in abl.), n. ῥυμουλκέω, nautical t. t.,
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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