124 On th UTILITY of defining 
CyMBA is often applied to the boat in which Cuaron wafted 
the fouls of the dead acrofs the Stygian lake. 
Scandenda eft torvi publica cymba fenis *. 
This boat, we are told by VireiL, was fo fmall, that it could 
hardly fupport the body of AENEAs. 
—— gemuit fub pondere cymba f. 
Scarua differs from cymba in denoting a yawl that attends 
a fhip for the convenience of thofe who belong to it. As coming 
from the Greek verb czarrew, it feems originally to have fig- 
nified a canoe, or boat formed out of the trunk of a tree; 
but the circumftance which diftinguithes it, is that above men- 
tioned. ‘ Ut dominus navis cum idem gubernator effet in 
“« [capham confugeret, et inde funiculo qui a puppi religatus 
“ fcapham annexam trahebat, navim quoad poffet moderare- 
“ tur ¢.’*—“ Quum merfiffent quaffas naves in alto, exceptis 
“ in preparatas /caphas nautis §.”’ 
Linter differs from /capha, in implying no connecttion be- 
tween it and a larger veffel, and in denoting a “ navis fluviati- 
* lis,” or wherry ufed only on frefh water, fuch as that of ri- 
vers and lakes. They agree as to the original mode of their 
formation, that is, as being jovoZvaw, or hollowed out of a folid 
piece of wood. 
—-—— durum procudit arator 
Vomeris obtufi dentem, cavat arbore /intres **. 
Partitur /intres exercitus; Actia pugna 
Te duce per pueros hoftili more refertur, 
Adverfarius eft frater, lacus Adria tt. 
“Ot 
Propert. 3. 18. 24. § Liv..23. 3. 
fEn. 6.413. %* Virg. Georg. 1. 261. 
Cic. de Inv. 81. & tt Hor. Ep. 1. 18. 61. 
