Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Funda

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. 

FUNDA (σφενδόνη). A sling, for discharging stones, or leaden plummets (glandes); a weapon commonly used in warfare by the Spaniards, Persians, Egyptians, and other foreign nations; and also occasionally by the Romans, as is shown by the annexed figure (Funda/1.1), representing a Roman soldier in the army of Trajan, from the column erected in honour of that emperor. Plin. H. N. vii. 37. Virg. Georg. i. 309. Serv. ad l. Id. Aen. ix. 586. FUNDITORES.

2. (ἀμφίβληστρον). A casting-net; employed, like our own, for taking fish in rivers (Virg. Georg. i. 141. Servius ad l. Isidor. Orig. xix. 5. 2.); but apparently cast from behind, and over the right shoulder (instead of being discharged from the left shoulder, and in front of the person throwing it, as is now the practice); that is, if the annexed figure (Funda/2.1), from a mosaic in the Thermae of Titus, affords a faithful representation of the manner in which it was thrown. The expression of Virgil, however, verberat amnem, gives an exact description of the manner in which the casting-net falls upon the waters.

3. A bag or pack slung over the shoulders, for the convenience of carrying money, or any other small articles (Macrob. Sat. ii. 4.); probably so called because, with the straps which fastened it, it had the appearance of a sling, as shown by the annexed example (Funda/3.1), from the device on a bronze lamp.

4. (σφενδόνη, πυελίς). The bezil of a ring; that is, the rim in which the gem is set; and which holds it as a sling does its stone; more especially so called when the setting is transparent, or au jour. (Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 37. and 42.) The example (Funda/4.1) is from an original.

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  Funda/1.1
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  Funda/2.1
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  Funda/3.1
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  Funda/4.1