rete

rēte, is, n. (abl. reti, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 27; id. Truc. 1, 1, 17;

more freq. rete,

id. Pers. 1, 2, 22; id. Rud. 4, 2, 9; 4, 3, 81; 4, 4, 124; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8; 3, 11, 3; id. L. L. 5, 29, § 130 Müll.; Col. 8, 10, 1; Suet. Ner. 30; Ov. F. 5, 371; id. Hal. 22; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81; Sen. Octav. 412 al.—Collat. form, acc. retem, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 45; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; 14.— As fem.:

tecta porticus sit rete cannabina,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11; cf. in plur.:

in retes meas incidisti,

Charis. p. 20 P.; cf. also Prisc. p. 659 ib.— But the masc., which Prisc. p. 759 P., and Charis. p. 45 ib., assume, is very doubtful.—Other collat. forms: rē-tĭum, diktuon, Gloss. Philox., and rētĭa, ae, f., Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 759 P.; Schol. ad Juv. 8, 207) [for srēte, from sero], a net (cf.:

plaga, casses, sagena): in piscinam rete qui jaculum parat... dum huc dum illuc reti eos impedit Pisces, etc.,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 14 sq.:

intra rete aves sunt omne genus,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 14:

araneolae quasi rete texunt, ut, si quid inhaeserit, conficiant,

Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

retia ponere cervis,

Verg. G. 1, 307; cf.:

tendere cervis,

Ov. M. 7, 701; so,

tendere,

id. ib. 4, 512; 8, 331; id. H. 5, 19 al.:

ferre,

id. M. 10, 171:

ducere in retia pisces,

id. ib. 13, 922:

praetendere, pandere,

Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 29:

praetexere,

id. 16, 1, 1, § 4:

extrahere,

Suet. Rhet. 1 al. —Prov.:

quae nimis apparent retia, vitat avis,

Ov. R. Am. 516.—

II.

Trop. (very rare, and perh. only poet. ), a net, toil, snare: tum retia nexit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 903 P.; cf.:

rete nexisti nostro lecto,

Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 37:

retibus amoris exire (with nodos Veneris),

Lucr. 4, 1147:

qui albo rete aliena oppugnant bona,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 22.