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On the same suhjoct the Carthaginian summarily touches, distinctly 

 recognizing the three varieties of which we have been just speaking : 



Necnon et casses iidem venatibus aptos, Nemesian. 



Atque plagas, longoque meantia retia tractu W^eg. vs. 2J9. 



Addiscant raris semper contexere nodis, 

 El servare nioduni maciilis linoque tenaci. 



And an earlier poet, in his praise of the brumal pleasures of the 

 countryman's life, sunders plagte and retia, applying them to such 

 totally difterent purposes, that it is probable they sometimes differed 

 as much in the structure of the mesh, its size, &c. as in the magni- 

 nitude of the whole instrument : 



At cum tonantis annus hvbernus Jovis nor. Epod. 



r ^ . L. 11.29. 



Inibres mvesque comparat ; 



Aut trudit acres hinc et hinc raulta, cane 



Apros in obstantes plagas ; 

 Aut amite levi rara tendit retia 



Turdis edacibus dolos, 

 Pavidurave leporera, et advenam laqueo gruem, 



Jucunda capiat praemia. 



Whatever honour be attached to these reticular inventions, and 

 that of the running-noose, the Ppoxos or laqueus, is due to Hip- 

 polytus : 



&pKvas aire fip6xovs re, Kal ajKvKa hlKrva wpwros Oppian. Cyneg. 



'1idt6\vtos ix(p6irfff(rii> iiraKxripeffffiv f<p7ive. 



The fipoxos generally formed a rhomb-shaped entrance to the apicvs, 

 as probably did the laqueus to the cassis : — but as the tunnel was 

 occasionally used separate from the sean-like toil {biKTv — rete) and 

 from the road-net (evobiov — plages), so may these slip-knot nooses 

 have been also set independent of the purses, their usual additaments, 

 in narrow passes, or straits frequented by game : 



Namque hos aut foveis, aut cseci in limine callis P. A. Bargaei 



Occultant, &c. Cyneg. L. i. 



The noose-ropes/ being of much ruder manufacture, and more simple 



1. Such were the anpai of the Parlhians, applied to the purposes of human war- 



