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Virgil's vines, delivered by a military term representing 



handsome t h e or d ers o f soldiers, which also confirmeth the 

 descrip- 

 tion antiquity of this form yet used in vineal planta- 

 tions. 



That the same was used in Latin plantations 

 is plainly confirmed from the commendingpen 

 of Varro Quintilian, and handsome description 

 of Virgil, 

 ''Indulge ordinibus, nee secius omnis in un- 



guem, 

 Arboritus positis, secto via limite quadret." 



Georg. II. 

 II 



That the networks and nets of antiquity were 

 little different in the form from ours at present, 

 is confirmable from the nets in the hands of 

 the retiary gladiators, the proper combatants 

 with the secutores. To omit the ancient cono- 

 peion or gnat-net of the Egyptians, the inven- 

 tors of that artifice ; the rushy labyrinths of 

 Theocritus ; the nosegay nets, which hung from 

 thehead underthenostrils of princes; and that 

 uneasy metaphor of reticulum jecoris, which 

 some expound the lobe, we the caul above the 

 liver. As for that famous network of Vulcan, 

 which inclosed Mars and Venus, and caused 



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