TRAP Copy link • TRAP 1. s. PROP., muscipula (a mouse-trap): laqueus (a snare; a cord with a noose, to catchor throttle an animal; especially plur. IMPROP., trap laid for anybody): tendicula (only IMPROP., in Cic.): pedica (to catch an animal by the foot). To set or lay a trap, laqueum ponere; also with venandi causa (PROP.); laqueos ponere or disponere (for anybody, alicui; PROP. and figuratively): to fall into a trap, in laqueum (laqueos) cadere: to remain fast in a trap, in laqueis haerere (poetical: all three also, figuratively). Figuratively, insidiae (ambush); laquei (snares: ☞ decipuli or decipulum = a trap, figuratively before and after the classical age, and nowhere in the proper sense): to lay, place, or set a trap, insidiari: for anyone, insidias alicui tendere, ponere, facere, or parare; dolum alicui nectere; laqueos alicui ponere or disponere: to allure anyone into a trap, in fraudem pellicere aliquem: to fall into a trap, in insidias incidere; in laqueos se induere; in laqueos cadere or incidere: I fall into the same trap, eadem capior via, qua alios captabam: to have fallen into a trap, laqueis irretitum teneri. [Vid: SNARE.] Claptraps, dulces exclamatiunculae theatri causa productae (Vid: Quint., 11, 3, 179; claptraps as used by an orator). Claptraps for the gallery, verba ad summam caveam spectantia. 2. v. To entrap, captare laqueis (PROP.): irretire laqueis (PROP. and figuratively). [Vid: ENTRAP.] Adorn, Vid: TRAP-DOOR, *janua pensilis (in solo descensum praebens ad ea quae infra sunt).