naumachy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French naumachie and its source, Latin naumachia.
Noun[edit]
naumachy (plural naumachies)
- (obsolete) A place built to stage a mock sea-battle, or the show performed therein. [17th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.2.4:
- Lacedæmonians held their public banquets […], plays, naumachies, places for sea-fights, theatres, amphitheatres able to contain 70,000 men, wherein they had several delightsome shows to exhilarate the people […].