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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. 

NASSA (κημός, κύρτη). A weel, or basket for snaring fish, made of wicker work with a wide funnel-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. Festus, s. v. Oppian. Hal. iii. 85. and 341. Sil. Ital. v. 48., where the form and manner of making it is described at length, and corresponding exactly with the annexed figure (Nassa/1.1), composed from two Roman mosaics, in both of which it is represented lying half-buried amongst sedges in a shallow piece of water.

  • Nassa/1.1
    Nassa/1.1

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