Deinde nautae remigio forti navem e sinu trahunt.

The sentence breaks down like this:

• Deinde = then / next
• nautae = the sailors; the subject
• remigio forti = with strong rowing / by strong oar-power
• navem = the ship; the direct object
• e sinu = out of the bay / cove
• trahunt = they pull / drag / haul

So the core is:

nautae navem trahunt = the sailors haul the ship

Everything else adds detail.

Because trahunt is third person plural, meaning they haul, so we expect a plural subject. Nautae can be nominative plural, which fits perfectly: the sailors.

A beginner may notice that nautae could also be another case in other contexts, but here the verb makes it clear that it is nominative plural.

This is a very common beginner question. Nauta belongs to the first declension, even though it is usually masculine in meaning.

Latin has several nouns like this, especially for occupations or roles, such as:

• nauta = sailor
• agricola = farmer
• poeta = poet

So nautae looks like a first-declension feminine plural form, but here it means male sailors or simply sailors.

Because it is the direct object of trahunt.

The sailors are doing the action, and the ship is the thing being hauled. In Latin, the direct object usually goes in the accusative.

So:

• navis = ship
• navem = ship as direct object

It means something like with strong rowing, by powerful rowing, or with strong oar-power.

• remigio is from remigium
• forti comes from fortis, meaning strong

Together they describe the means by which the sailors move the ship.

A very literal sense would be by strong rowing effort.

Because Latin often uses the ablative of means without a preposition.

English usually needs a word like with or by, but Latin can simply put the noun in the ablative:

• gladio pugnat = he fights with a sword
• remigio forti trahunt = they haul by strong rowing

So the lack of a preposition is completely normal.

Because forti agrees with remigio in case, number, and gender.

Here:

• remigio is ablative singular
• so the adjective must also be ablative singular
• that form is forti

A learner may think of forte, but that is not the right form here. In fact, forte is often seen as an adverb meaning by chance, which would make no sense in this sentence.

Sinu is ablative singular, used after the preposition e.

Sinus can mean several things in Latin, but here it means something like:

• bay
• cove
• inlet

So e sinu means out of the bay or from the cove.

Both e and ex mean out of / from.

Very often:

• e appears before a consonant
• ex appears before a vowel or h

So e sinu is perfectly normal, because sinu begins with a consonant.

That said, Latin writers are not always completely rigid about this, so you may sometimes see variation.

Trahunt is:

• present tense
• active voice
• indicative mood
• third person plural

It comes from trahere, meaning to pull, drag, or haul.

So trahunt means they pull / they haul.

Because that is a very common Latin word order.

Latin often puts the verb last, especially in straightforward narrative prose. English usually prefers a more fixed order, but Latin is much more flexible because the endings show the grammatical relationships.

So this sentence could be rearranged in other ways and still mean the same thing, as long as the forms stay the same.

It can mean several related things:

• pull
• drag
• draw
• haul

In this context, haul is often the most natural English choice, because sailors are moving a ship out of a bay by force.

So the exact English word depends on style and context, not on a different Latin grammar point.

No. Remigium does not usually mean one oar.

Instead, it refers to things like:

• rowing
• oar-power
• the rowing force
• sometimes even the rowers collectively

So remigio forti is not with one strong oar, but rather with strong rowing effort or with powerful use of the oars.

Deinde is an adverb meaning then, next, or after that.

It helps move the story forward. It does not change the tense of the verb; it simply shows sequence.

So the sentence is telling us what happens next.