Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fuscina

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. 

FUS'CINA (τρίαινα). A large fork with three or more branches, employed by fishermen for spearing fish, as represented in the annexed woodcut (Fuscina/1.1), from a mosaic picture in an ancient temple of Bacchus near Rome. It was likewise given by artists and poets to Neptune instead of a sceptre, as the more appropriate symbol for the god of the ocean. Cic. N. D. i. 36. and woodcut s. TRIDENS.

2. A weapon of similar form and character, used by the class of gladiators called Retiarii, with which they attacked their adversaries, after they had hampered them by casting a net over their heads, as exhibited in the annexed engraving (Fuscina/2.1), from an ancient mosaic. Suet. Cal. 30. Juv. ii. 143.

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  Fuscina/1.1
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  Fuscina/2.1