Cybaea
Cybaea a merchant-ship or transport, mentioned only in Cicero's Orations against Verres (4.8.17). It is properly an adjective, as Cicero speaks of navis cybaea maxima, and describes it as most beautiful and richly adorned, like a trireme (5.17.44). The word perhaps comes from the Greek κύπη, a kind of ship mentioned by Hesychius. (Zumpt, ad Cic. Ver. 4.8, § 17.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.