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rēte , is, n. (abl. reti, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 27; id. Truc. 1, 1, 17;
I.more freq. rete,id. Pers. 1, 2, 22; id. Rud. 4, 2, 9; 4, 3, 81; 4, 4, 124; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8; 3, 11, 3; id. L. L. 5, 29, § 130 Müll.; Col. 8, 10, 1; Suet. Ner. 30; Ov. F. 5, 371; id. Hal. 22; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81; Sen. Octav. 412 al.—Collat. form, acc. retem, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 45; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; 14.— As fem.: “tecta porticus sit rete cannabina,Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; cf. in plur.: “in retes meas incidisti,Charis. p. 20 P.; cf. also Prisc. p. 659 ib.— But the masc., which Prisc. p. 759 P., and Charis. p. 45 ib., assume, is very doubtful.—Other collat. forms: -tĭum , δίκτυον, Gloss. Philox., and rētĭa , ae, f., Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 759 P.; Schol. ad Juv. 8, 207) [for srēte, from sero], a net (cf.: “plaga, casses, sagena): in piscinam rete qui jaculum parat ... dum huc dum illuc reti eos impedit Pisces, etc.,Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 14 sq.: “intra rete aves sunt omne genus,Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 14: “araneolae quasi rete texunt, ut, si quid inhaeserit, conficiant,Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123: “retia ponere cervis,Verg. G. 1, 307; cf.: “tendere cervis,Ov. M. 7, 701; so, “tendere,id. ib. 4, 512; 8, 331; id. H. 5, 19 al.: “ferre,id. M. 10, 171: “ducere in retia pisces,id. ib. 13, 922: “praetendere, pandere,Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 29: “praetexere,id. 16, 1, 1, § 4: “extrahere,Suet. Rhet. 1 al.—Prov.: “quae nimis apparent retia, vitat avis,Ov. R. Am. 516.—
II. Trop. (very rare, and perh. only poet.), a net, toil, snare: tum retia nexit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 903 P.; cf.: “rete nexisti nostro lecto,Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 37: “retibus amoris exire (with nodos Veneris),Lucr. 4, 1147: “qui albo rete aliena oppugnant bona,Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 22.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.171
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    • Plautus, Rudens, 4.2
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1147
    • Suetonius, Nero, 30
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    • Seneca, Octavia, 412
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