Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Conopeum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CONO'PEUM or CONOPI'UM (κωνωπεών, κωνωπεῖον). A musquito net, suspended over a sleeping couch, or over persons reposing out of doors, to keep off the gnats and other troublesome insects; the use of which originated in Egypt. Hor. Epod. ix. 16. Prop. iii. 11. 45. Varro, R. R. ii. 10. 8. Juv. vi. 80., in which passage the penultimate is long.