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Nautes

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[naw-teez, noh-] / ˈnɔ tiz, ˈnoʊ- /

noun

  1. (in theAeneid ) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.


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The Company of Nautes or "the Corporation of the Water Trade," formed a centre round which were successively attached various bodies of different trades.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.

Obey thou the fair counsel aged Nautes now gives.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

There Proreus, Nautes, Eratreus, appear And famed Amphialus, Polyneus' heir; Euryalus, like Mars terrific, rose, When clad in wrath he withers hosts of foes; Naubolides with grace unequall'd shone, Or equall'd by Laodamas alone.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Nautes advises Æneas to leave behind the weak and aged with Acestes.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The most ancient of these corporations was the Parisian Hanse, or corporation of the bourgeois for canal navigation, which probably dates its origin back to the college of Parisian Nautes, existing before the Roman conquest.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.

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