HOOK Copy link • HOOK 1. s. hamus (general term): uncus (such as was fixed under the chin of condemned persons when they were dragged to the Tiber; also, for surgical purposes; Cels.): fish-hook, hamus or hamus piscarius: to fish with a hook, [Vid: “to FISH with a rod “]: to throw in the hook, hamum demittere: to bite at the hook, hamum vorare: the fish swims to the hook, piscis decurrit ad hamum (Hor., Ep., 1, 4, 74). 2. v. inuncare aliquid or aliquem (to attack with hooks; e.g., a lamb with claws; Apul., Flor., p. 341, 9); uncum impingere or infigere alicui (to fix a hook in anybody’s body, in order to drag him along, as was done at Rome to criminals; Vid: Cic., Phil., 1, 2, 5; Ov., in lb., 166).