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Cymba is often applied to the boat in which Charon wafted 

 the fouls of the dead acrofs the Stygian lake. 



Scandenda eft tor vi publica cymba fenis *. 



This boat, we are told by Virgil, was fo fmall, that it could 

 hardly fupport the body of ^Eneas. 



gemuit fub pondere cymba f . 



Scapha 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 rzuTretv, it feems originally to have fig- 

 nified a canoe, or boat formed out of the trunk of a tree ', 

 but the circumftance which diftinguifhes it, is that above men- 

 tioned. " Ut dominus navis cum idem gubernator effet in 

 " fcapham confugeret, et inde funiculo qui a puppi religatus 

 u fcapham annexam trahebat, navim quoad poffet moderare- 

 ri tur J." — " Quum merfifTent quafTas naves in alto, exceptis 

 " in praeparatas fcaphas nautis §." 



Linter differs from fcapha, in implying no connection 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 povo%vXu y or hollowed out of a folid 

 piece of wood. 



durum procudit arator 



Vomeris obtufi dentem, cavat arbore lintres **. 



Partitur lintres exercitus ; Aclia pugna 

 Te duce per pueros hoftili more refertur, 

 Adverfarius eft frater, lacus Adria ff. 



Propert. 3. 18.24* § L1V..23. 3. 



JEn. 6.413. ** Virg. Georg. 1. 261. 



Cic. de lav. 81. b. ft Hor. Ep. I. 18. 61. 



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