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APPENDIX. 



Gratii Cynegt 

 vs. 89. 



Hor. L. III. 

 Od. IV. vs. 70. 



Cyneg. L. 

 28. 



structure, than any variety of net with meshes, must have been of 

 earlier institution. 



Nam fuit et laqueis aliquis curracibus usus. 

 Cervino jussere niagis contexere nervo ; 

 Fraus teget insidias, habitu mentita ferino. 



These laquei curraces,^ seemingly from this passage made of other 

 materials than hemp before the days of Gratius, are yet in use, under 

 the form of springes and wires, with deer and hare-poachers ; who, I 

 find in Oppian, are indebted to the giant-hunter Orion — " integrae — 

 tentator Orion Dianae" — for the first establishment of their nocturnal 

 depredations : 



rvKTeplovs Se \6xovs, vvxiv" iraviTr'iKXo-nov &ypTiv 

 'npiuf irpwri.aros e/i'^coTo KepSaXed^pwv. 



We are next introduced by Gratius to dentatee pedica, spiked 



De Bell. 



Judaic. L. vii. 



c. 27. 



Argonaut. 

 L. VI. 133. 



Preface to the 

 Reader. 



fare : for it is evident from Josephus's account of Tiridates's narrow escape from the 

 Alan aeipacpSpos — {fipdxov yap avr^ tJs ir6^pudev Trepi^aXoov efieWev iiri<nrd(reiv, el 

 M^ T^ l'4**' Owrrov iKe7vos 7hv r6vov Kuipas, e<p6r} Sia<pirye7p,') — that the instrument 

 employed against the king was of the nature of a laqueus. And a farther illustration 

 of the use of the noose-rope in war we find in the lines of Valerius Flaccus, 



Doctus et Auchates patulo vaga vincula gyro 

 Spargere, et extremas laqueis adducere turmas. 



1. Some idea of the curraces laquei, and hunting nets duly set, may be formed from 

 the engravings of Strada and Galle (1578.'); or those of the Venationes Ferarum &c. 

 of CoUaert, Mallery, Theodore and Cornelius Galle of later date. The spirited wood- 

 cuts of John Adam Lonicer, of Francfort, attached to the Venatus et Aucupium 

 of Sigismund Feyerabendi (1582), are amusing, but far less illustrative than the 

 former. 



To Pere Montfaucon we are indebted for a few copies from the antique of the 

 larger varieties of nets for hunting, Ziktvo,, retia ; see his plates of stag-hunting : 

 but we have no representations of other predatory instruments in the latter work. 

 Wase confounds the laquei curraces with the dentatee pedicee, where he describes the 

 former as " a round hoop of yeughen wood made of boughs, which stood bent by 

 force, in fashion of a coronet, and all stuck with iron nayles, and wooden pins," &c. 

 Peradventure, they may have been set together, the gins in a shallow pit beneath tlie 

 nooses, more superficially placed on the ground. See Xenoph. de Venat. c. ix. 

 Polluc. Onom. L. v. c, iv. 



