Prora

Bello victus, per tres dies sedit in prora navis, abstinens ab omni consortio, etiam Cleopatiae, postea se interfecit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Virro gives rancid oil to his poor guests as dressing to their salad: illud enim vestris datur alveolis quod canna Micipsarum prora subvexit acuta, propter quod Romae cum Boccare nemo lavatur, quod tutos etiam facit a serpentibus atris (v. 88). ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

At its sharp bow or prora there was a rostrum or beak of iron, like those of Roman and Carthaginian war-vessels, weighing forty thousand pounds. ❋ Louis J Dupre (1881)

The boats themselves are long and narrow as now, but without the indented prora which has become universal; the sumptuary law of the Republic has not yet robbed them of colour, and instead of the present "coffin" we see canopies of gaily-hued stuffs supported on four light pillars. ❋ John Richard Greene (1860)

Didacticæ nostræ prora & puppis esto: Investigare, & invenire modum, quo ❋ Johann Amos Comenius (1631)

Frangimtur rcmi: tum prora avcrtit, ct undis Dat latus: infcquitur cnmulo praeruptus aquae mons. ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)

Talia jatenti ftridens aquilone procella dum adveria ferit, fludusque ad fidera tollit; nmguntnr remi: tum prora avertity et undis lat latos: infequitur cumulo praeruptus aqua mons. ❋ Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (1796)

IL 991. — cum —, in cuins prora Serapis ft. ni Im Neptuni columnae iropofira. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Impp.p. 279. fg - 8., ad cuius cltoum fedct fi« gnra, altera fl. in prora. n. ❋ Unknown (1793)

Has autcm iniagiiics tam in prora quam puppi coUocare confucverant. • quamvis nou ignorem viros niagnos, Scaligerum, ❋ Unknown (1705)

Vesperis ad metas extremaque litora mundi: nunc illum, pigris inmania monstra sub undis5 qui ferat, oceanum, qui saeuas undique pistris aequoreasque canis, ratibus consurgere prensis. accumulat fragor ipse metus: iam sidere limo nauigia et rapido desertam flumine classem seque feris credunt per inertia fata marinis10 quam non felici laniandos sorte relinqui. atque aliquis prora caecum sublimis ab alta aera pugnaci luctatus rumpere uisu, ut nihil erepto ualuit dinoscere mundo, obstructo talis effundit pectore uoces: 15 ❋ Unknown (1912)

Absit autem, ut qui in prora hujus naviculæ pervigil laborabat, jam in puppi super cervicalia dormiat, vel dormitet,” lib.iii. cap. liii. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)

Nauis prora e qua duae ingentes fpicae prominent; curatores enim frumenti imponcre folebant frumten - tiim cx prouinciis frumentariis ad "duflum nauibusj quae illud con - fettim Romam tranfueherent. ❋ Unknown (1785)

To TO'UCHEN.v. ». prora ttugh, '] To grow tough M§r timer. ❋ Unknown (1768)

Apud Tiiucydidem fic voca - tur locus in prora qui eft ante remos: ac ii dicas, qiiod eft πα, ρϊξ τϋί ilpio {a4y i.e. extra remos. ❋ Unknown (1705)