A dictionary of Greek and Roman . tended to be set up as already described. (Tibullus,i. 4. 49, 50 ; Sen. Hippol. i 1. 44 ; Propert. iv. ) The foremost servant holds by a leash a dog,which is eager to pursue the game. In the middlefigure the net is set up. At each end of it standsa watchman holding a staff. (Oppian, Cyneg. iv. Ml. mm 124.) Being intended to take such large quadru-peds as boars and deer (which are seen within it),the meshes are very wide (retia rara, Virg. 131 ; Hor. Epod. ii. 33). The net is supportedby three stakes (trrdkLKes, Oppian, Cyneg. iv. 67,
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . tended to be set up as already described. (Tibullus,i. 4. 49, 50 ; Sen. Hippol. i 1. 44 ; Propert. iv. ) The foremost servant holds by a leash a dog,which is eager to pursue the game. In the middlefigure the net is set up. At each end of it standsa watchman holding a staff. (Oppian, Cyneg. iv. Ml. mm 124.) Being intended to take such large quadru-peds as boars and deer (which are seen within it),the meshes are very wide (retia rara, Virg. 131 ; Hor. Epod. ii. 33). The net is supportedby three stakes (trrdkLKes, Oppian, Cyneg. iv. 67,&c. ; Pollux, v. 31 ; ancones, Gratius, Cyneg. 87 ;vari. Lucan, iv. 439). To dispose the nets in thismanner was called retia ponere (Virg. Georg. ), or retia tendere (Ovid. Art. Amat. i. 45).Comparing it with the stature of the attendants,we perceive the net to be between five and six feethigh. The upper border of the net consists of astrong rope, which was called aaphav. (Xen. deVenat. vi. 9.) The figures in the following woodcutrepresent two men carrying the net home afterthe chace ; the stakes for supporting it, two ofwhich they hold in their hands, are forked at thetop, as is expressed by the terms for them alreadyquoted, ancones and vari. Besides the nets used to inclose woods and co-verts or other large tracts of country two a
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