nauclerus

plural naucleri

1. Ancient Romechiefly Ancient GreecehistoryA shipmaster, a shipowner, a skipper

   Hence we find that the nauclerus often owns a share (Sacerdoti, p. 40; Scriba, 645; other authorities below).

   1909, The Rhodian Sea-Law, page clxv

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   It was during the thirteenth century that one of the owners (patroni) acting as representative of all of them, was legally recognized as the ship’s master (il patrono). The nauclerus became merely his mate, the later nocchiero.

   1973, Venezia e il Levante fino al secolo XV, page 409

   In the former case the nauclerus wrote his receipt, in three copies, to the strategus and to the sitologi. In the latter case there was no personal contacte between the nauclerus and the sitologi. The cybernetes handed out his own receipt, and the receipt of the nauclerus [...]

   1979, Fifty Oxyrhynchus Papyri, page 54