Vocat jam carbasus auras;
Puppibus et læti nautæ imposuere coronas. iv. 417.
The flapping sail invites the gales; the poops
By the glad seamen are already crown’d.
Eum (fluvium Tiberim) tenuis glauco velabat amictu
Carbasus, et crines umbrosa tegebat arundo. viii. 33.
Thin muslin veils him with its sea-green folds;
His head a copious shade of reeds sustains.
Tum croceam chlamydem, sinusque crepantes
Carbaseos fulvo in nodum collegerat auro. xi. 775.