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THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 325
Sed non, quo dederas a litore carbasa, vento
Utendiini, medio cum potiare freto.
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Art. Am. ii. 357.
The wind to which you give your sails on shore,
In the mid ocean will assist no more.
Diunque parant torto subducero carbasa lino.
They now witli twisted ropes let down the sails.
Fast. iii. 587.
In all these passages Ovid uses carbasa in the improper sense
it was an easy transition from the idea of a cotton awning,
witli which the Romans had become famiUar, to apply the
term to the sail of a ship. To these examples we may add the
following
:
Et sequitur curvus fugienta carbasa delphin.
Seneca, (Ed. ii. prope fin.
The dolphin curved pursues the fljing sails.
Strictaque pendentes deducunt carbasa nautaj.
The mariners confine the sails with cords,
And, clinging to the mast, they take them down.
Recto deprendit carbasa malo. ix. 324.
The mast stands upright ; he takes down the sails.
Jamque adeo egressi steterant in littore prime,
Et promota, ratis pendentibus arbore nautis,
Aptabant sensim pulsanti carbasa vento.
Lucan, ii. 697.
Silius Italicus. Pun. iii. 128.
They leave the port and reach the shore : aloft
They hang upon the mast, and by degrees
They fit the sails to catch the beating wind.
Festinant trepidi substringere carbasa nautae.
Martial, 1. .xii. ep. 29.
The trembling seamen haste to reef their sails.
PrimsB, carbasa ventilantis, auriE.
Of the first gale, which breathes upon the sails.
Statius, Sylv. iv. 3. 106.
Statins also mentions " Carbasei sinus," the folds of cotton in
the chlamys of a Bacchanal [Theb. vii. 65S.).
iEstivos penetrent oneraria carbasa fluctus.
Postquam tua carbasa vexit—Oceanus.
Necdum alite viderunt carbasa terras.
Rutilius, i. 221.
Val. Flaccus, i.
Ibid.
Valerius Flaccus also introduces muslin among the elegan-
ces in the dress of a Phrygian from the river Rhyndacus.
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