haud secus ac vitreas sollers piscator ad undas, ore levem patulo texens de vimine nassam, cautius interiora ligat mediamque per alvum, sensim fastigans, compressa cacumina nectit ac fraude artati remeare foraminis arcet introitu facilem, quem traxit ab aequore, piscem.
Even so beside a glassy stream a cunning angler weaves osiers to make a light and wide-mouthed weel; the inmost part he frames with especial care, and for the centre he makes the trap taper gradually to a point, and fastens together the narrowed ends; so by the contracting apertures deceit he forbids return to the fish which, free as they were to enter, he has drawn in from the stream.
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