Classis, huius classis, f. g. Cic.A nany of shippes: a shippe. Vir. An order of fourmes or seates, where men sit according to their degrees. Sometime a company of horsemen.Imperator classis. Lucret. The chiefe capitaine.Retinacula classis soluere.Ouid.Potens classe virisque.Ouid.Cætera classis.Liu.The rest of the shippes.Funesta classis.Stat.Gloriosissimæ Carthaginien sium classes.Cic.Inops & infirma classis.Cic.Lunata. Lucan. A shippe bending compasse like a Moone.Modica clalsis.Liu.Profuga.Ouid. Socia. Ouid.Volucr freta classe pererrat. Ouid.He sayleth ouer the seas with a swist shippe. Aduectus clasle.Virg.Aedisicare & ornare classes.Cic.To make and furnish ships.Agere classes.Senec.To driue.Huc illuc agitata classis. Sen. Tossed hither and thither.Amittere classem.Virg.To leese his nauie.Appellere classem.Cic.To arriue with a nauie.Aptare classem.Virg. Velis aptare classem. Virg.Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet. Horat. Aimare classem.Virg.To furnish with or dinaunce.In classem cadit omne nemue. Lucan. Vide CADO. Capta nauis ex classe. Ci. One shippe of the nauie was taken.Capta & incensa classis Cic.Comparare classem.Cic.To prepare a nauy.Conscendere classem.Virg.To take shipping.Currit iter turum æquore classis.Virg.Sayleth safely.Dare classbus Austios, pro Dare classes Austris. Virg.Deducere classem. Horat. To take the sea.Deuincere classe aliquos.Cic.To ouercome vpon the sea.Disiecta toto æquore classis.Virg.Scattered.Disponere classem in ora maritima. Cæs. Distribuere classem.Cic.To appoyut one part of the nauie in one place, and the restoue in an other.Ducere classem. Sil. To gouerne or guide.Ducere in saxa classem. Sen. Expellere & eijcere classem in littus.Cic.Explere classem quinquaginta naurum.Liu.To make vp a nany of sisry thppes.Ferunt ipsa æquora classem.Virg.Ferunt sua flamma classem.Virg.Driue forward.Fertur cita gurgite classis.Virg.Sayleth swistly.Formidatus classe. Horat. Fcared on the sea by reason of his great power.Habere classem Cic.Impellere remige classem.Ouid.To row for ward.Inferre classes Oceano. Lucan. To take the maine sea.Classis innat mate. Sen. Instruere atque omare classem.Cic.To drcke and furnish.Instroere & parare classem Liu. Classis aa. Ouid.Latet sub classibus æquor.Virg.The sea hid with ips.Legeie anclioras classis. Sen. To disanker and depart.Mergere clasiem.Stat. Nauigare classe & nambus. Cic.Moliti classem.Virg.To prepare a nauy.Nauigat classis.Cic. Ornare classem. Cic.Permet classibus æquor. Virg.To savle or passe ouer.Petere classibus vrbem vel regionem aliquam. Virgil. To sayle to a citie or countrey.Præesse classi.Cic.To be maister or capitaine of the shippe.Piscari classibus. Sen. Procedit classis æquatis velis.Virg.Procincta classis. Fest In readinesse to fight.Prodere classem prædombus.Cic.Auster classem propellit cedentibus velis. Lucan. Prouehi dicitur & appelli classis.Cic.Quassatam ventis classem subducere. Vir. To bring to land.Recepta classis.Virg.A nanie recouered.Amissam classem reducere.Virg.Relata classis.Virg.A nauy brought home againe.Religare classem ab aggere pæ. Virg.To tye at.Sequi aliquem serro & classe Stat.Sistere classem.Virg. Soluere classem de littore. Stat.Stare classes in mari dicuntur, quæ cessant in portu. Virgil. To lye at roade.Tegere classibus sitta. Sen. To couer with shippes.Tenere am medium ter clasle. Virg.To haue sayled halfe way.Transmissæ trans æquora classes.Virg.Vehere classe aliquos.Virg. Vemens classis ad littora. Virg. In quinque classes distribuit Pop Rom. Seruius Tul. Liu.Sruius dded them into fiue bands, partes, or orders.Prima classis, secunda classis, &c.Cic.Primæ classis homines, qui c. & xxv. millibus æris, ampliúsue censierant. Gel. The richest and best of the cie.Infra classem autem appellatos inquit Gellius. qui in secunda & sequentrbus classibus erant, id est q minoie summa censi erant. Quintæ classis homines dicebantur, infimi & pauperiores homines, nullius authoritatis.Cic.Tributim & centuatim discriptis, ordinibus, classibus, ætanbus, &c. Cic. In classes distubuere pueros. Quint. To diuide chsldren into certaine fouremes.Ducete classem. Quint. To be chiefe of the band or fourme. Classis diciter etiam multitudo equitum.Virg.Classicula pen cor. Diminut. Cic.A small nany.
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classis (old orthog. CLASIS, Column. Rostr.; v. under I. B. 2.), is (acc. sing. usu. classem; classim, Auct. B. Afr. 9, 2; abl. usu. classe; classi, Verg. A. 8, 11; Liv. 23, 41, 8; Vell. 2, 79), f. [root cal-, cla-, of clamo, kale/w; prop. the people as assembled or called together], hence, I. After the division of the Roman people by Servius Tullius into six (or, the citizens who paid tribute alone being reckoned, into five) classes, 1.A class, Liv. 1, 42, 5; 1, 43, 2 sq.; Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39 sq.; Gell. 6 (7), 13, 1 sq.; Cic. Fl. 7, 15; Liv. 1, 42, 5; 1, 43, 1 sqq.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, 43; cf. Dion. Halic. 4, 16 sq.; 7, 59: prima classis vocatur... tum secunda classis, etc., Cic. Phil. 2, 33, 82: infra classem; v. classicus, I.—2.Trop.: qui (philosophi) mihi cum illo collati, quintae classis videntur, i.e.
of the lowest rank
, Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 73; cf. classicus, I. B.—Hence, B. In milit. lang., the whole body of the citizens called to arms, an army. 1 Of the land army (mostly very ancient): procincta, Lex Numae in Fest. s. v. opima, p. 189, 13 Müll.: classis procincta [id est exercitus armatus, Gloss.], Fab. Pictor. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 4; cf. Gell. 1, 11, 3; Paul. ex Fest. p. 56, 3: classi quoque ad Fidenas pugnatum cum Vejentibus quidam in annales rettulere, Liv. 4, 34, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.: Hortinae classes populique Latini, Verg. A. 7, 716 Serv.—2. Of men at sea, the fleet, including the troops in it (the usu. signif. in prose and poetry): CLASESQVE. NAVALES. PRIMOS. ORNAVET.... CLASEIS. POENICAS...., Column. Rostr., v. 7 sq.: nomina in classem dare, Liv. 28, 45, 19: cetera classis... fugerunt, id. 35, 26, 9: ut classem duceret in Ligurum oram, id. 40, 26, 8; 41, 24, 13; cf. id. 42, 48, 10: navium classis, id. 22, 37, 13: posteaquam maximas aedificasset ornassetque classes, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9: classem instruere atque ornare, id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, 135: classis ornandae reficiendaeque causā, Liv 9, 30, 4: comparare, Cic. Fl. 14, 33: facere, Caes. B. C. 3, 42 al.: classe navigare,
by ship
, Cic. Fl. 14, 32; cf. Verg. A. 1, 379; 8, 11; Hor.C. 3, 11, 48: classes = naves, Verg. A. 2, 30: geminasque legit de classe biremis, id. ib. 8, 79: omittere, id. ib. 5, 794: armare, id. ib. 4, 299: deducere, id. G. 1, 255: efficere, Nep. Them. 2, 3: (Suiones) praeter viros armaque classibus valent, Tac. G. 44. —II. In the post-Aug. per., sometimes, a class, division, in gen.: pueros in classes distribuerant, Quint. 1, 2, 23; so id. 1, 2, 24; 10, 5, 21; Suet. Tib. 46: operarum, Col. 1, 9, 7: servorum, Petr. 74, 7.