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NETS BY THE ANCIENTS. 457<br />

lin. Some <strong>of</strong> its leads <strong>and</strong> floats remain, as well as a gourd,<br />

which assisted the floats*.<br />

Besides the verses <strong>of</strong> Oppian, which are above quoted, wc<br />

find an<strong>other</strong> passage <strong>of</strong> the same poem [Hal. iii. 82, 83),<br />

which mentions the following appendages to the aay^vn, viz. the<br />

jTsfdi, the aipatpdvci, <strong>and</strong> the aKoXios Tuiyaypos. As tlic Tdjtj, ov fcct <strong>of</strong> a<br />

sail were the ropes fastened to its lower corners, we may con-<br />

clude that the T^fat were the ropes attached to the corners <strong>of</strong> the<br />

sean, <strong>and</strong> used in a similar manner to fasten it to the shore <strong>and</strong><br />

to draw it in to the l<strong>and</strong>, as is described by Ovid in the line<br />

already quoted,<br />

—<br />

Hos cava contento retia/une trahunt.<br />

<strong>The</strong> paipum, as the name implies, were spherical, <strong>and</strong> must<br />

therefore have been either the floats <strong>of</strong> wood or cork at the top,<br />

or the weights, consisting either <strong>of</strong> round stones or pieces <strong>of</strong><br />

lead, at the bottom. <strong>The</strong>

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