4.] The nets in this case are squared at the ends, and seem to have been about eight or nine feet long, and less than a foot in height.

They have large meshes, and, like the deer nets, are bordered both at top and bottom with a strong cord, to which the net-work is attached.

Like the classical [evodia], they were probably placed across the runs of the animals, which, being baffled by then and turned from their accustomed tracks, would grow bewildered, and fall an easy prey to the hunters.

Or, possibly, several of them may have been joined together, and a considerable space may then have been enclosed, within which the game may have been driven by the beaters.

The ease of these three weak and tinnier animals, the gazelle, the hare, and the partridge, was not regarded as worthy of the monarch.