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infer that it was sometimes not larger than a purse for the pocket. Hence Aristotle^[1] properly applies the term [Greek: gyrgathos] to the small spherical or oval bag in which spiders deposit their eggs. Among the luxurious habits of the Sicilian prætor Verres, it is recorded, that he had a small and very fine linen net, filled with rose-leaves, "which ever and anon he gave his nose^[2]." This net was, no doubt, called [Greek: gyrgathos] in Greek.THE END.

1. Anim. Hist. v. 27. Compare Apollodorus, Frag. xi. p. 454, ed. Heyne.
2. Reticulum ad nares sibi admovebat, tenuissimo lino, minutis maculis, plenum rosæ.—Cic. in Verr. ii. 5. 11