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in the works of the Latin poets, but in none more copiously de- 

 lineated than in the Cynegeticon of Nemesian ; who enumerates the 

 many sources whence the feathers of dissimilar tint are to be culled 

 for decorating the " plumed line :" 



Nemesian. Dat tibi pinnarum terrentia millia vultur ; 



'-yneg. vs. 312. p^j Jjbye magnaram avium foecunda creatrix, 



Danlque grues, cygnique senes, et candidus anser ; 

 Pant qufE fluminibus crassisque paludibus errant, 

 Pellitosqiie pedes stagnanti gurgite tingunt : 

 nine mage Puniceas native raunere sumes : 

 Namque illic sine fine greges florentibus alis 

 Invenies avium, suavique rubescere luto, 

 Et sparsos passim tergo vernare colores. 



If the reader be interested in the minutiae of Grecian and Roman 

 net-making, and the methods of fixing the apKves, 6/fcrua, and ivobta, 

 the casses, retia, and plaga, he is referred for the former to the 

 Cynegeticus of the elder Xenophon, and that most extraordinary 

 work of human research, the Onomasticon of Julius Pollux — for 

 the latter, to the Venatio Novantiqua of Janus Vlitius, a scholar of 

 deep erudition, and an experienced sportsman: — a summary view 

 being all that can be rendered by the present writer, professedly 

 epitomising the labours of more experienced workmen. 



The apKves or casses were conical, purse or tunnel-like nets, 

 ending in a point at one end, and having a running noose of entrance 

 at the other, resembling somewhat a hooped calash, or cowl. 



The hiKTva or retia were long sean-like nets for open fields, and 



Nemesian. ^^^ encircling brakes and coverts; " longoque meantia retia 



Cyneg. vs. 300. tractu." 



The kvohia or plagtB were nets of much less length, to be placed 

 across roads, game-tracks, paths, and narrow openings between 

 bushes. 



The apKves appear to have been sometimes placed independent of 

 the blKTva, but more commonly in the course of the main nets ; so 

 that when the animals passed along the linear and reticular barrier, 

 exploring a place of egress, terrified by the formido, (which flanked 

 the hayes, and occasionally was drawn along above the net-rope to 

 scare the game from overleaping,) and the meshes of the biKTva, 

 (continuous except where the purse-nets were introduced with their 



