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 nautæ.
Martial, l. xii. ep. 29.
The trembling seamen haste to reef their sails.
Primæ, carbasa ventilantis, auræ.—Statius, Sylv. iv. 3. 106.
Of the first gale, which breathes upon the sails.
Statius also mentions “Carbasei sinus,” the folds of cotton in the chlamys of a Bacchanal (Theb. vii. 658.).