Noun
A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
Usage- Historical
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The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.
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The reverse depicts a Roman corbita of the third century CE against the background of a map of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia and Sicily in the west to the eastern end of that sea and two lions in the foreground.
Two corbitas have arrived at the shipwright in Pompeii, back from Persia; on board are the fine silks and spices that I ordered.