Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagena

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. 

SAGE'NA (σαγήνη). Our seine; a large drag-net for taking fish, one edge of which was floated by corks on the water, and the other depressed and extended by leaden weights; the entire length of the net being sufficient to enclose a considerable extent of water, one end of it was carried out from a boat or from the shore, and laid round in a circle until the two ends were brought together, in which state it was dragged into the boat or shore, in the same manner as still practised in the gulf of Naples, and on the coast of Cornwall. Manil. Astron. v. 678. Ulp. Dig. 47. 10. 13.