Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hamiota

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. 

HAMIO'TA. An angler; who fishes with a line and hook (hamus), as contradistinguished from who nets his prey. (Plaut. Rud. ii. 2. 5. Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 25.) The illustration (Hamiota/1.1) is copied from a painting at Pompeii, the inhabitants of which town appear to have been much addicted to the amusement of angling, arising, perhaps, from their proximity to the Sarno; for the landscapes painted on the walls of their houses frequently contain the figure of an angler, who always wears the peculiar kind of hat here shown, or one very similar to it, and carries a fish-basket of the same shape as our figure.

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  Hamiota/1.1