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A trap or gin for catching birds, made of network and shutting by a spring (Plaut. Bacch. iv. 5.22).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.5
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