put to sea

PUT TO SEA

solvere navem or simply solvere (poetically vela ventis dare): with a fleet classe proficisci; classe navigare (but the latter only when the place to which one sails is named; e.g. in Macedoniam): a terra solvere (Put off from land): e portu proficisci (of the person or ship): e portu exire prodire (also without e portu of the ship): naves e portu educere classem deducere (of the admiral).

put to sea:

1. solvo, 3: with acc. of navis or classis (prop. to cast off moorings, to weigh anchor, to loose from): subj. of the person: (Caesar) p. to sea a little past midnight, ipse paulo post mediam noctem naves solvit, Caes. B. G. 4, 36 (cf. ib. 23): with a and abl. of the land; cf. naves conscenderunt et a terra solverunt, id. B. C. 3, 101: abl. of the place; mercatores Alexandria solvisse, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 50: also subj. of the ships; cf. naves xviii. ex superiore portu leni vento solverunt, Caes. B. G. 4, 28: pass. with navis as subj.; interea e portu nostra navis solvitur, Pl. Bac. 2. 3, 54.

2. edūco, 3, navem, etc.: cf. TO PUT OFF; TO PUT OUT (of port); TO WEIGH. Poet. solvere vela, Prop. 1, 17, 26. Phr., poet.: in altum vela dabant, Virg. Aen. 1, 34: Vulg. has the simple verb: duc in altum (p. out into deep water), Luc. v. 4: Vulg. also has nāvĭgo, Act. xiii. 13, xxi. 1: and tollo, Act. xxvii. 4, 21: cf. TO LAUNCH; TO LOOSE; TO SAIL; TO WEIGH (anchor).