SNARE Copy link • SNAREPROP., Anything set to catch an animal, a gin, a noose, laqueus (a sling, etc.). To lay a snare, laqueum ponere, also with “venandi causa”: to fall or get into a snare, in laqueum or laqueos cadere: to have fallen into a snare, in laqueis haerere († all three, also, IMPROP.): ImPROP., insidiae (trap): laquei (snares, traps). ☞ Decipula or decipulum = “gin, trap,” never occur in the proper meaning, and they are either ante- or post-classical. To lay a snare, insidiari: for anybody, insidias alicui tendere, ponere; insidiis petere aliquem; dolum alicui nectere (to deceive, to defraud): to entice anybody into a snare, in fraudem pellicere aliquem: to get or fall into a snare, in insidias incidere: I am falling into the snare which I have laid for others, eadem capior via qua alios captabam: to have fallen into the snare, laqueis irretitum teneri: to catch as it were, in a snare, velut indagine capere.