Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Linum

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. 

LI'NUM (λίνον). Flax; thence any thing made with flax; as, a sewing thread (Celsus, vii. 14.); a fishing line (Ovid. Met. xiii. 923. LINEA, 1); a string of pearls (Tertull. LINEA, 5.); a string bound round the tablets (tabellae) upon which letters or any other document were written, and then tied in a knot over which the seal was affixed (Cic. Cat. iii. 5. Plaut. Bacch. iv. 3. 79 — 111.); a net, the meshes of which were made of string. Ov. Virg. Juv.