Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cassis (net)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CASSIS, -is (ἄρκυς). One of the nets employed by the ancients in hunting wild animals, such as boars and deer. (Isidor. Orig. xix. 5. 4. Ov. A. Am. i. 392. Mart. Ep. iii. 58.) It was a sort of purse or tunnel net, the mouth of which was kept open by branches of trees, and so deceived the animal who was driven into it, when it was immediately closed by a running rope (epidromus) round the neck. Yates, Textrin. Antiq. p. 422.