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.
snare (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. lăquĕus, i, m. (a noose)2. pĕdĭca, f. (a gin, springe)3. plăga, f. (a hunting-net)II. Fig.1. lăquĕus, i, m.2. plăga3. fŏvea4. casses, ium, m. (lit., hunting-nets5. rēte, is, n. (v. NET)6. indāgo, ĭnis, f. (lit., an encircling with nets)7. insĭdiae, arum, f. • snare (subs.): I. Lit.: 1. lăquĕus, i, m. (a noose): to capture wild animals in s.s, captare feras laqueis, Virg. G. 1, 139: v. noose. 2. pĕdĭca, f. (a gin, springe): to place s.s (or springes) for cranes, gruibus p. ponere, Virg. G. 1, 307: Liv. 21, 36, fin. 3. plăga, f. (a hunting-net): to drive a wolf into the s.s, compellere in plagas lupum (v. l. Lycum), Pl. Poen. 3, 3, 35: to lay s.s, tendere, ponere p. Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68: to fall into a s., incidere (sc. in plagas), ib.: v. net (subs.). [For to entice into a s., v. to decoy.] II. Fig.: 1. lăquĕus, i, m.: to entangle one in s.s (or traps) of questions, interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire, Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 43: cf. l. Stoicorum, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76, and pass.: to lay s.s for a rival, rivali l. disponere, Ov. A. A. 2, 595: to fall into a s., cadere in l., ib. 3, 591: cf. in l. se induere, Pl. Cas. 1, 25: Cic.: to put one's neck into a s., collum in l. inserere, Cic. Verr. 4, 17, 37: to escape from a s., se expedire ex l., id. 2, 42, 102. 2. plăga: to contrive s.s (of the Stoics), p. texere, Cic. Acad. 2, 48, 147 (see also to snare, II.). 3. fŏvea: to deceive by a s., fovea decipere, Pl. Poen. 1, 1, 59. 4. casses, ium, m. (lit., hunting-nets: v. net): Tib. 1, 6, 5. 5. rēte, is, n. (v. net): r. amoris, Lucr. 4, 1141. 6. indāgo, ĭnis, f. (lit., an encircling with nets): to catch, so to speak, in a s., velut indagine capere, Tac. A. 13, 42, fin. 7. insĭdiae, arum, f.: to contrive s.s, i. parare, comparare, tendere, collocare, ponere, struere, Caes.: componere, Tac.: Prop.: Tib.: disponere, Quint.: (v. ambush, stratagem). Phr.: full of s.s, insidiosus, Cic.: Ov.: Plin.: to lay s.s against, insidiari (with dat.): v. ambush, to lie in, ambush: is it unjust that your enemies should fall into the s. they have laid for you? (injurium est) qua via te (adversarii) captent, eadem ipsos capi? Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 16 (see also supr. II., 1). [For to entice into a s., v. to allure, inveigle, seduce.]
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.