Puppis

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The name comes from the after deck section on Roman ships, (puppim – pronounced “poopim”) where small statues or sacred images (puppis – meaning dool or statue) of gods were kept. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conquerar an taceam? ponam sine nomine crimen, an notum qui sis omnibus esse uelim? nomine non utar, ne commendere querela, quaeraturque tibi carmine fama meo. dum mea puppis erat ualida fundata carina, 5 qui mecum uelles currere primus eras; nunc, quia contraxit uultum Fortuna, recedis, auxilio postquam scis opus esse tuo. dissimulas etiam, nec me uis nosse uideri, quisque sit audito nomine Naso rogas. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

This word _poop_ is evidently derived from the Latin _puppis_, as originally the after-part of a ship was called by the Romans, and thence the name was given to the ship herself, a part being taken for the whole. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The stern or puppis, from which we derive the term poop, was elevated above the other parts of the deck, and here the helmsman had his seat, sheltered by a shed frequently adorned with an image of the tutelary deity of the vessel. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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

Tutela fecure mea* Cocli ifte fretique Non puppis noftrae labor eft, Hanc Caefare preflam A flu£lu defendet onus j nam proderit undis Ifte ratis; Quid tanta ftrage paratur Ignoras? quaerit pelagi coelique tumultu Quid pweftet fortuna mihi*. — — Phars. ❋ Unknown (1812)

Litora nota petens: fiammas quum regia puppis Extulerat; fatisque deiim defenfus iniquis, ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)

Dardana puppis 4» i* 40, nauls». cua Aeneas Itallain ifato pro* fugos venit. ❋ Propertius, Sextus (1777)

Byzantia robur fregit luxuries Ancyranique triumphi. non peditem praecedit eques; non commoda castris eligitur regio; uicibus custodia nullis aduigilat uallo; non explorantur eundae95 uitandaeque uiae; nullo se cornua flectunt ordine: confusi passim per opaca uagantur lustra, per ignotas angusto tramite uallis. sic uacui rectoris equi, sic orba magistro fertur in abruptum casu, non sidere, puppis; 100 sic ruit in rupes amisso pisce sodali belua, sulcandas qui praeuius edocet undas inmensumque pecus paruae moderamine caudae temperat et tanto coniungit foedera monstro; illa natat rationis inops et caeca profundi; 105 iam breuibus deprensa uadis ignara reuerti palpitat et uanos scopulis inlidit hiatus. ❋ Claudian (1912)

«puppis, - is» (acc. «-im», abl. «-ī»), f. _stern_ of a ship, _deck_ ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

unda deum caelo miserit indigetem. ecce super fessas uolitat Victoria puppis; 45 ❋ Tibullus (1912)

uindicet, in poenas non satis unus eris. at laceras etiam puppis furiosa refeci, 45 ❋ Ovid (1912)

mersa foret cana naufraga puppis aqua; saepe deos adiens, ut tu, scelerate, ualeres, ❋ Ovid (1912)

£t jam Argiva phalanx inibrudis navibus ibant A Tenedo, tacitae per amica iilentia lunx» litora nota petens: dammas quum regia puppis EitulerBt; fiEitisque deiim defenfus iniquis, ❋ Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (1796)

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