Note 344 — Chapter VIII · THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
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A. Rich, Dict. of Rom. and Gk. Antiquities, London, 1874, s.v. ‘Arundo.’ I have been unable to trace this lamp in either Birch or Passeri. Daremberg and Saglio, op. cit., seem to collect most of the information on the subject, s.v. ‘Venatio,’ V. p. 694. The above and other methods of aucupium, “bird-catching,” prevail to a devastating extent in Italy at the present day.