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Navalia

νεώρια). Dry-docks in which vessels were drawn up for repairs or when out of commission. Those at the Piraeus (Athens) were built by Pericles. At Rome the chief docks were in the upper bend of the Tiber, above the Aventine (Livy, iii. 26; viii. 15).

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