, Caes. B. G. 5, 22: in classe acieque navali esse, Liv. 26, 51, 8 Weissenb.: forma,
the shape of a ship
, Ov. F. 1, 229: corona, a naval crown, as the reward of a naval victory, Verg. A. 8, 684; cf.: navali coronā solet donari, qui primus in hostium navem armatus transilierit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 163 Müll.; so, navali cinctus honore caput, Ov. A. A. 3, 392: navali surgentes aere columnae,
made of the brass from the beaks of captured ships
, Verg. G. 3, 29: arbor,
fit for ship-building
, Plin. 13, 9, 17, 61: stagnum,
a basin in which to exhibit mock sea-fights
, Tac. A. 4, 15: navalis Phoebus, so called because hegranted the victory at Actium, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 3; v. Actius and Actiacus: socii, sailors, seamen (chosen from the freedmen of the colonists and allies, and also from those of the colonists and allies themselves who had been in slavery; they were bound to a longer period of service and were of lower rank than the land troops; cf. Liv. 36, 2; 40, 18; 21, 50): postero die militibus navalibusque sociis convocatis, id. 26, 48; 26, 17; 32, 23; 26, 35; 24, 11.—Sometimes the socii navales are distinguished from the seamen, Liv. 37, 10: navales pedes, contemptuously,
galley-slaves
, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 75. (Others understand by this expression ship-servants, cabin-boys. Non. 381, 393, calls the oars themselves navales pedes).— Duumviri navales,
two commissaries who were charged with the repairing and fitting out of a fleet
, Liv. 9, 30; 40, 18; 26: navalis scriba, a ship's scribe or secretary, Paul. ex Fest. p. 169 Müll.—II.Subst.: nāvā-le, is, n. (in sing. only poet.), and nāvā-lĭa, ium, n. (gen. plur. navaliorum, Vitr. 5, 127; Inscr. Orell. 3627). A.A place where ships were built and repaired, a dock, dockyard (cf.: statio, portus): navalia, portus, aquarum ductus, etc., Cic. Off. 2, 17, 60: de navalium opere, id. de Or. 1, 14, 62: deripientque rates alii navalibus, Verg. A. 4, 593; Ov. M. 11, 455.—In sing., haud aliter quam si siccum navale teneret (puppis), Ov. M. 3, 661; id. H. 18, 207.—Esp. of the place in Rome, across the Tiber, where the dock-yards were situated, Liv. 3, 26; 8, 14, 12; 40, 51 et saep.—Near them was the Navalis porta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 178 Müll.— B.The requisites for fitting out a ship, tackling, rigging, Liv. 45, 23, 5; Verg. A. 11, 329; Plin. 16, 11, 21, 52.