snare (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig.1. illăqueo, 1.2. irrētio, 4 • snare (v.): I. Lit.: illăqueo, 1: v. to ensnare. Usu. expr. by verb and subs.: e. g. laqueis captare, pedicas ponere, etc. (v. snare, subs., I.). Join: to s. wild animals with nooses, birds with lime, laqueis captare feras et fallere visco, Virg. G. 1, 139: to be s.d (or caught) in the lasso (of a bull), validis haerere in laqueis, Prop. 3, 32 (2, 34), 48. II. Fig.: 1. illăqueo, 1. 2. irrētio, 4: v. to entangle, ensnare.