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454 MANUFACTURE AND USE OF<br />

both their casting-net <strong>and</strong> those <strong>of</strong> <strong>other</strong> kinds. In verse 21<br />

he mentions that James <strong>and</strong> John were in their boat, mending<br />

their nets [survay<br />

<strong>The</strong> same things are to be observed in Mark i. 16, which is<br />

the parallel passage.<br />

IV.<br />

rpi^os, or rpinoE.<br />

Pursuing the order adopted by Oppian in his list <strong>of</strong> fishing<br />

nets above quoted, we <strong>com</strong>e to the rpi,pos. What kind <strong>of</strong> net<br />

this was we have been unable to discover. It must, however,<br />

have been one <strong>of</strong> the most useful <strong>and</strong> important kinds, because<br />

Plutarch mentions ypi.<br />

§ <strong>The</strong>ocrit. i. 39 ; iii. 26. Il Brunck, Anal. ii. 9, No. 14.<br />

ir Agam. 352.<br />

** Acyei yicyacrdivris OnptieaBai T>)v KCyxjnv airov Ji/crioiai. Arriau, Indica, vol. t<br />

p. 525, ed. Blancardi.

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