The corpus record — Latin

casses

a hunting-net

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

casses — Lewis & Short

casses, ium (in

I sing. acc. cassem, Grat. Cyn. 28; abl. casse, Ov. A. A. 3, 554; Sen. Agam. 885, p. 893 Bip.), m., a hunting-net, a snare, toil (poet.; in prose: plaga, retia), Verg. G. 3, 371; Tib. 4, 3, 17; Prop. 4 (5), 2, 33; Ov. M. 5, 579 al.—

B Meton., a spider's web, Verg. G. 4, 247; Mart. 3, 93, 5; Arn. 6, 202.—

II Trop., snares, plots: casses tendere alicui, Tib. 1, 6, 5; Ov. A. A. 3, 554.

In the wild

cassibus Vergil, Georgicon 3.371
cassibus Martial, Epigrammata 3.93.5
cassibus Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.34
cassibus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 117.10
cassibus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.145
cassibus Statius, Achilleis 1.460

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cassés (scan p. 127; entry #1851).

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