Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hamotrahones

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. 

HAMOTRAHO'NES. A nickname given to anglers, and to the gaolers who dragged up the corpse of a criminal, after execution, from the carnficina on to the Gemonian stairs; both in allusion to their use of a hook (hamus). Festus, s. v.