Ratis, buius ratis fœ. ge. vel Rates, ratis, secundum Probum. Deeces of timber pinned togither whereon hay or other like thing being layed, they are drawne on tiuers, as in Germanie and Fraunce. A boate.Quum aut nauibus, aut ratibus conarentur accedere. Cice. Scirpea ratis.Plaut.A bundle or like thing of bultushes, such as yong men vse to learne to swimme with. Ratis, abusiuè vsurpatur pro Naue.Virg.A shippe.Rates duplices. Cæs. Cauæ rates.Ouid.Holow ships or boates.Celsa ratis. Valer. Flac. Ceratæ rates. Ouid.Curua. Propert. Excelsæ. Sil. Fractarum ratium subita ruiua. Lucan. Frugiferæ rates. Claud. Insana ratis. Val. Flac.Intrepida. Seneca. Laceræ ratis naufraga membra.Ouid.The peeces of shippes broken. Leues rates. Tib. Præcipites. Lucan. Swift ships.Pronæ rates.Ouid.Quassatæ.Virg. Veliuolæ rates. Ouid.Spumantes.Virg. Victrices. Claud. Turbata ratis. Claud. Volucris ratis. Val. Flac. Armare rates.Virg.Committere ratem vento.Ouid.Fragilem ratem committere pelago. Hor. Credita est vento ratis. Sen. Nondum credenda periclis ratis.Stat.Dedere fluctibus ratem.Senec.Ducunt instabiles sydera certa rates. Tibull. Flectere ratem Ouid. Frænare ratem. Sen. Auster implicuit rates.Stat.Aure impulerat ratem.Ouid.Mergere ratem in ima.Ouid.Nauigare ratibus. Plin. Carinas ponere ratibus, Vir.Prouecta ratis fertur in altum. Sen. Læta recurrit ratis. Valer. Flac. Quassas rates resicere Hor.Regere ratem in vndis.Virg.Dubiam ratem regere.Ouid.Submersis ratibus saturata Charybdis.Ouid.Sohiere ratem.Ouid. Subigere ratem conto. Virg.Picta rate sulcare vndas.Ouid.Temperare ratem.Ouid.To gouerne a ship.Altum tenuere rates. Virgil. The shippes were in the maine sea.Tentare Thetin ratibus.Virg.Tranlnare rates vidit.Stat.Parua rate vectus.Ouid. Vexare rates. Virg.
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rătis (rătes, acc. to Prob. p. 1473 fin.; yet perh. we should here read vates; acc. ratim, Hyg. Fab. 175), is, f. [Sanscr. ar-i-tras that which propels, an oar; Gr. e)re/ths, rower; e)re/ssw, to row; Lat.: remus, remigium, triremis, etc.]. 1.A vessel made of logs fastened together, a raft: rates vocantur tigna colligata, quae per aquam aguntur; quo vocabulo interdum etiam naves significantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 272 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 273, 22 ib.: nave primus in Graeciam ex Aegypto Danaus advenit, antea ratibus navigabatur inventis in mari Rubro inter insulas a rege Erythrā, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 206; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, 5: transeunt Rhenum navibus ratibusque, Caes. B. G. 6, 35: trabibus verius quam ratibus, Plin. 3, 5, 9, 53; Caes. B. C. 1, 25: ratibus quibus junxerat flumen, nondum resolutis, etc., i. e.
pontoons
, Liv. 21, 47: tamquam in rate in mari immenso nostra vehitur ratio, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73 B. and K.—2.A float: quasi pueris qui nare discunt, scirpea induitur ratis, Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 9.— 3. Prov.: servavisti omnem ratem,
you have saved us from shipwreck
, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 15; cf. id. ib. 3, 2, 53; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 27.— B.Meton., in the poets, a bark, boat, vessel, in gen.: caeruleum spumat sale confertā rate pulsum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 659 P. (Ann. v. 378 Vahl.); Naev. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 23 Müll.; Att. ap. Fest. s. v. rates, p. 272 ib.; Cat. 63, 1; 64, 121; Verg. G. 2, 445; id. A. 1, 43; 3, 192; 4, 53.— Of Charon's boat, Verg. A. 6, 302.