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 been above quoted from Gratius Faliscus. To the same effect are the following passages:

Nec est mirum, cum maximos ferarum greges linea pennis distincta conterreat, et ad insidias agat, ab ipso effectu dicta formido.—Seneca, de Ira, ii. 11.

Feras lineis et pinna conclusas contine: easdem a tergo eques telis incessat: tentabunt fugam per ipsa quæ fugerant, proculcabuntque formidinem—Seneca, de Clementia, i. 12.

Picta rubenti lineo pinna Vano claudat terrore feras.

Seneca Frag. Hippol. i. 1.

III.

FUNDA, JACULUM, RETE JACULUM, RETIACULUM.

[Greek: AMPHIBLÊSTRON], [Greek: AMPHIBOLON].

Fishing-nets were of six different kinds, which are enumerated by Oppian as follows:

[Greek: Tôn ta men amphiblêstra, ta de griphoi kaleontai, Gangama t', êd' hypochai periêgees, êde sagênai, Alla de kiklêskousi kalymmata.]—Hal. iii. 80-82.

Of these by far the most common were the [Greek: amphiblêstron], or casting-net, and the [Greek: sagênê], i. e. the drag or sean. Consequently these two are the only kinds mentioned by Virgil and Ovid in the following passages:

Atque alius latum funda jam verberat amnem, Alta petens; pelagoque alius trahit humida lina.

Virg. Georg. i. 141, 142.

Hi jaculo pisces, illi capiuntur ab hamis; Hos cava contento retia fune trahunt.

Ovid, ''Art. Amat.'' i. 763, 464.

By Virgil the casting-net is called funda, which is the common term for a sling. In illustration of this it is to be observed, that the casting-net is thrown over the fisherman's shoulder, and then whirled in the air much like a sling. By this action he causes it to fly open at the bottom so as to form a circle,. Diod. Sic. xvii. 43. p. 193, Wessel.]