Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Plaga

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. 

PLAGA (ἐνόδιον). A hunting net, intended to be drawn across a road, opening, or ride in the cover, in order to prevent the game from getting out of bounds. (Grat. Cyneg. 300. Hor. Epod. 2. 23. Lucret. v. 1250. Compare Serv. ad Virg. Aen. iv. 131.) Though the exact nature and character of this net is open to dispute, yet it would appear from a general comparison of the passages in which mention of it occurs, that it was similar in form and use to the RETE; with the exception of being smaller, and employed as a subsidiary to the larger one, across narrow and confined passes, which would otherwise give an inlet into the open country.

2. Same as PLAGULA. Afranius and Varro, ap. Non. s. v. pp. 378. 537.