Note 305 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
Agamemnon vs. 1386.
The complete and helpless entanglement of the victim of the tunnel-net is admirably described by Seneca, in the simile of The Agamemnon, where Cassandra likens the son of Atreus, ensnared in a cassi-form vest (so happily called by Æschylus πημονὴν ἀρκύστατον) by the “semivir” Thyestes and the adulteress queen-consort, to a boar inextricably enveloped in these toils:
Senecæ Agamem. Act. v. 886.
At ille ut altis hispidus sylvis aper, Cum casse vinctus, tentat egressus tamen, Arctatque motu vincla, et incassùm furit, Cupit fluentes undique et cæcos sinus Disjicere, et hostem quærit implicitus suum.
See the definitions of Pollux in my notes to the first Chapter of Arrian’s Cynegeticus—ἄρκυες, δίκτυα, ἐνόδια.