Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Reticulum

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. 

RETIC'ULUM (δικτύδιον). Diminutive of RETE; a small net, or a net made with small meshes (Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 13.); whence the following specific senses; —

1. A bag of network, the original of our reticule, employed for holding various articles:  — bread (Hor. Sat. i. 1. 47.); playing balls (Ov. A. Am. iii. 361.); dried rose leaves, or other aromatic productions, which were thus carried in the hand, for the same purpose as the modern scent bottle. Cic. Verr. ii. 5. 11.

2. (κεκρύφαλος). A cap for the hair, made of net-work, and properly belonging to the female attire (Varro, L. L. v. 130.), though the same was sometimes adopted by the male sex (Lamprid. Heliog. 11. Juv. ii. 96.), as is still the case in modern Italy, where it is worn by the women of Albano, and by the men of Sonnino. The example (Reticulum/2.1) is from a painting at Pompeii.

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