The corpus record — Latin

remulcum

remulcum · n

a tow-rope

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

rĕmulcum — Lewis & Short

rĕmulcum (rymulcum, acc. to the Gr., n.r(umoulke/w, nautical t. t.,

Amm. 18, 5, 6), i (for the most part only in abl.),

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.

In the wild

remulco Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 p30
remulco Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 p18
remulco Ausonius, Mosella pr.41
remulco Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.30.7
remulco Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.5.6
remulco Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 11

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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