Note 341 — Chapter VIII · THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
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Cf. Virgil, Geor., I. 139. Also Oppian, Cyneg., I. 65 f., where, as tools of the fowler, are specified, “long cords, and moist honey-coloured birdlime, and reeds which tread their track through the air.” Cf. also Ovid, Met., XV. 477, “nec volucrem viscata fallite virga.”