Note 68 — IX. THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS.
Reading edition
The figure recalls the Persian custom of sweeping off the whole population of an island, by forming a line and marching over it, a process of extermination called by the Greek writers σαγηνεύειν, "fishing with a seine or drag-net" (Herod. iii. 149, iv. 9, vi. 31).