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464 MANUFACTURE AND USE OF NETS BY THE ANCIENTS.<br />

infer that it was sometimes not larger than a purse for the<br />

pocket. Hence Aristotle* properly appUes the term yvpyaOoi to<br />

the small spherical or oval bag in which spiders deposit their<br />

eggs. Among the luxurious habits <strong>of</strong> the Sicihan praetor Yerres,<br />

it is recorded, that he had a small <strong>and</strong> very fine hnen net, filled<br />

with rose-leaves, "which ever <strong>and</strong> anon he gave his noset."<br />

This net was, no doubt, called yvpyaQos in Greek.<br />

* Anim. Hist. v. 27. Compare Apollodonis, Frag. xi. p. 454, ed. Heyne.<br />

t Reticulum ad nares sibi admovebat, tenuissimo lino, minutis maculis, plennm<br />

roeae.—Cic. in Verr. ii. 5. 11<br />

THE END.<br />

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