Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Epidromus

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. 

EPID'ROMUS (ἐπίδρομος). A running rope attached to the neck of a tunnel net (cassis), and passing through a set of rings affixed to the mouth of the purse, by pulling which the huntsman, who lay in ambush, closed the net like a bag, when the game had been driven into it. Plin. H. N. xix. 2. § 2. Jul. Poll. v. 29. Xen. Cyneg. vi. 9.

2. The sail on the mast nearest to the stern in vessels fitted with more than one mast. (Jul. Poll. i. 91. Isidor. Orig. xix. 3. 3.) Pollux and Isidorus differ in some degree from each other, one giving the name to the sail, the other to the mast; but probably the term included the mast with the sail belonging to it. The illustration (Epidromus/2.1) is copied from a bas-relief of the Villa Borghese.

3. Enumerated by Varro (R. R. xiii. 1.) amongst the articles necessary for the furniture of an oil press room (torcularium), but without any context to explain what is meant.

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  Epidromus/2.1