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casses , ium (in
I.sing. acc. cassem, Grat. Cyn. 28; abl. casse, Ov. A. A. 3, 554; Sen. Agam. 885, p. 893 Bip.), m., a hunting-net, a snare, toil (poet.; “in prose: plaga, retia),Verg. G. 3, 371; Tib. 4, 3, 17; Prop. 4 (5), 2, 33; Ov. M. 5, 579 al.
B. Meton., a spider's web, Verg. G. 4, 247; Mart. 3, 93, 5; Arn. 6, 202.—
II. Trop., snares, plots: “casses tendere alicui,Tib. 1, 6, 5; Ov. A. A. 3, 554.
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