I.an oar.
I. Lit., Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16: “ut retinet navis cursum, intermisso impetu pulsuque remorum,” Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 153; Caes. B. G. 3, 13: “remis navem incitare,” id. ib. 3, 14; “4, 25: remis contendere,” id. ib. 5, 8; Verg. A. 1, 104; 552; Hor. Epod. 10, 6; id. A. P. 65: “incumbere remis,” Verg. A. 10, 294: “remis insurgere,” id. ib. 3, 207; “560: inpellere aequora remis,” Ov. M. 3, 657.—Prov.: remis velisque, velis remisque, remis ventisque; also, ventis remis, with sails and oars, i. e. with all one's might, with all possible speed: “ita citi remis velisque impellite puppim,” Sil. 1, 568: “res omni contentione, velis, ut ita dicam, remisque fugienda,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 11, 25: “laevam cuncta cohors remis ventisque petivit,” Verg. A. 3, 563: “inde ventis remis in patriam omni festinatione properavi,” Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 3 (cf.: “remigio veloque festinare,” Plaut. As. 1, 3, 5).—
B. Poet., transf., of the wings of birds: “alarum,” Ov. M. 5, 558: “pennarum (Icari),” Sil. 12, 98.— “Of the hands and feet of a swimmer,” Ov. H. 18, 215.—
II. Trop.: “quaerebam, utrum panderem vela orationis statim, an eam ante paululum dialecticorum remis propellerem,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9 (shortly before, remigare; opp. vela facere).
