Puppis, huius puppis, f. g. Liu.The hinder parte of a ship.Puppis pro Tota naui, apud poetas.Ouid.The whole ship. Adunca puppis.Ouid.Aerata.Ouid. Incesta puppis. Stat.Aerea.Virg. Inflexa. Plin. Alta.Virg. Laboratæ puppes arte. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
puppis, is (acc. rarely puppem, Luc. 3, 545; and 4, 132, acc. to Prisc. p. 758 and 761 P.; abl. puppe, Ov. M. 5, 653; 7, 1; 11, 464 al.; Sil. 14, 525; Stat. Th. 3, 29 et saep.), f. [etym. dub.]. I.The hinder part of a ship, the stern or poop (where also the helm was placed): navem convertens ad puppim, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3: surgens a puppi ventus,
astern
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right aft
, Verg. A. 3, 130: e puppi, Curt. 4, 4, 8; Ov. M. 3, 651: major pars a puppe nantes equos loris trahebat, Curt. 7, 9, 4: puppes citae, Hor. Epod. 9, 20: sedebamus in puppi et clavum tenebamus, i. e.
I sat at the helm of the ship of State
, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 3: quam ob rem conscende nobiscum. et quidem ad puppim, id. ib. 12, 25, 5.—II.Transf.A. In gen., a ship: pictae puppes, Hor. C. 1, 14, 14; Verg. A. 1, 399; id. G. 3, 362; Ov. H. 13, 97.—B. As a constellation, The Ship, Cic. Arat. 389.— C. In comic lang., the back: puppis Pereunda est probe, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 69.