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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAULETTE , a large cavern on the See also:

left See also:bank of the See also:Lesse, which joins the See also:Meuse above See also:Dinant, See also:Belgium. Here in 1866 Edouard See also:Dupont discovered an imperfect human See also:lower See also:jaw, . now in the See also:Brussels Natural See also:History Museum. It is of a very See also:ape-like type in its extreme See also:projection and that of the See also:teeth sockets (teeth themselves lost), with canines very strong and large molars increasing in See also:size backward. It was found associated with the remains of See also:mammoth, See also:rhinoceros and See also:reindeer. The Naulette See also:man is now assigned to the See also:Mousterian See also:Epoch. See G. de See also:Mortillet, Le Prehistorique (1900) ; E. Dupont, Etude sur See also:les fouilles scientifiques executies See also:pendant l'hiver (1865–1866), p. 21. NAUMACHIA, the See also:Greek word denoting a See also:naval See also:battle (vans, See also:ship, and µ6.x17, battle), used by the See also:Romans as a See also:term for a mimic See also:sea-fight. These entertainments took See also:place in the See also:amphitheatre, which was flooded with See also:water, or in specially constructed basins (also called naumachiae). The first on See also:record, representing an engagement between a Tyrian and an See also:Egyptian See also:fleet, was given by See also:Julius See also:Caesar (46 B.C.) on a See also:lake which he constructed in the Campus Martins. In 2 B.C.

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Augustus, at the See also:dedication of the See also:temple of See also:Mars Ultor, exhibited a naumachia between Athenians and Persians, in a See also:basin probably in the horti Caesaris, where subsequently See also:Titus gave a See also:representation of a sea-fight between See also:Corinth and Corcyra. In that given by See also:Claudius (A.D. 52) on the lacus Fucinus, 19,000 men dressed as Rhodians and Sicilians manoeuvred and fought. The crews consisted of See also:gladiators and condemned criminals; in later times, even of See also:volunteers. See L. Friedlander in J. See also:Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, iii. (1885) p. 558.

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