OPPIAN 



being designed to catch surface fishes, a^poi/'apa, 

 fishes which swim between two waters, such as 

 Mackerel, Horse-Mackerel, etc. Nets, on the other 

 hand, which are shot in the morning and drawn next 

 morning are called aTro a-Tarov, and are generally 

 "compound," /-lavw/^eva, consisting of a Net with fine 

 meshes between two with larger meshes, as opposed 

 to the simple Nets, aTrAaSta, Apost, pp. 32 f. 



3. yptc^os (yptTTos) is the generic name for the 

 draw-net or seine. Plutarch, as we have seen, 

 couples ypi<f)o<; and crayi]vq. Cf. A. P. vi. 23. 3 Se^o 

 (Tayrivaioio Xivov T€T pififUvov o-^jJ-y \ XdxI/avov, at'^- 

 fi-qpov, ^avdev kir i)i6v(jiv, | ypiirovs re ; cf. Poll. i. 97, x. 

 132. So the Nets employed in analogous manner 

 for the capture of land animals and bearing the 

 same names are coupled by Plut. Mor. 471 d ovK 6 

 ypt(f)Oi<i Kal (rayy]vai<; cAac^ofS /at) Aa/x/3ai/wv, Aposto- 

 lides p. 35 (who errs in thinking that Oppian 

 identifies yplcjios and a/x^t^Ar/o-Tpov) describes the 

 yplcf)os as consisting of two parallel nets, to which is 

 attached another having the fonn of a sack. These 

 two nets are called at Poros [off coast of Argolis] 

 TTxepa, "wings." The parallel Nets are suspended 

 on two cords ; the lower having hung on it at equal 

 intervals pieces of lead (fxoXv/Sidpes), the upper, called 

 in some places crap8ovva<s {cf. Xen. Q/«. 6. 9 a-apSovioiv, 

 Poll. v. 31 (rapSoves), being hung with corks ((/)eAAoi). 

 The two pieces of wood, at the front ends of the 

 two parallel Nets, to which is attached the cord by 

 which the seine is drawn to land, are called at Paros 

 (TTuAiK ta, the triangular cord being called x^^'^'os- 



Three species of seine are used in modern Greece 

 according to Apostolides, 1 . the ypiTros proper, called 

 in many places trata, consisting of two parallel nets 



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