Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Nassa

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Nassa

（κημός, κύρτη). A weel, or basket for snaring fish, made of wicker work with a wide fun

Nassa. (Rich.)

nel-shaped mouth, long body, and narrow throat, constructed as our own are, in such a manner that the fish could enter it, but not get out again. See Festus, s. v. and Sil. Ital. v. 48, where the form and manner of making it are described at length.

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

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