Note 24 — BOOK V.
Rowland Smith translation
The stern of the vessel was adorned with the image of the tutelary deity, whence that part of the ship was called tutela, and held sacred by the mariners.
... "non robore picto Ornatas decuit fulgens tutela carinas."—Lucan, iii. 510.
See also, Hor. I. Od. xvi. 10; and Persius S. vi. 30.