_navis praetoria_ (Liv. 21. 49)—the admiral's ship; the flagship.
_pugnam navalem facere_[1]—to fight a battle at sea.
_navem expedire_—to clear for action.
_navem rostro percutere_—to charge, ram a boat.
_navem expugnare_—to board and capture a boat.
_navem, classem deprimere, mergere_—to sink a ship, a fleet.
_classes concurrunt_ (Liv. 26. 39)—the fleets charge.
_copulas, manus ferreas (in navem) inicere_—to throw grappling irons
on board; to board.
_in navem (hostium) transcendere_—to throw grappling irons on board;
to board.
_navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere_—to capture a boat.
_vela armamentaque_—sails and rigging.
_ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum_—much damage was
done by this collision.
_navigia speculatoria_—reconnoitring-vessels.
[1] For a description of a sea-fight _vid._ B. G. iii. 13-16.