Fishing-nets[702] were of six different kinds, which are enumerated by Oppian as follows:
Τῶν τὰ μὲν ἀμφίβληστρα, τὰ δὲ γρῖφοι καλέονται,
Γάγγαμα τ’, ἠδ’ ὑποχαὶ περιηγέες, ἠδὲ σαγῆναι,
Ἄλλα δὲ κικλήσκουσι καλύμματα.—Hal. iii. 80-82.
[702] Ἁλιευτικὰ δίκτυα. Diod. Sic. xvii. 43. p. 193, Wessel.
Of these by far the most common were the ἀμφίβληστρον, or casting-net, and the σαγήνη, i. e. the drag or sean. Consequently these two are the only kinds mentioned by Virgil and Ovid in the following passages:
Atque alius latum funda jam verberat amnem,
Alta petens; pelagoque alius trahit humida lina.
Virg. Georg. i. 141, 142.
Hi jaculo pisces, illi capiuntur ab hamis;