α3962Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
[Meaning] the net for [catching] wild beasts. The flaxen [nets], which they cast to hunt lions. [sc. The word comes] from the [verb] e(/lkw ["I drag"], with a change of the lambda into rho; or from the [verb] a)greu/ein…
Ἄρκυς· τὸ θηρευτικὸν δίκτυον. τὰ λίνα, ἃ ἱστᾶσι πρὸς ἄγραν τῶν λεόντων. παρὰ τὸ ἕλκω, τροπῇ τοῦ λ εἰς ρ· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἀγρεύειν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ εἴργειν, τὸ κωλύειν. τοῦ δὲ ἄρκυς ἐκτείνεται…