δίκτῠον, τό,
(δικεῖν) net:
__1 fishing-net, δικτύῳ ἐξέρυσαν πολυωπῷ (i.e. ἰχθύας) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.386; φελλοὶ δ᾽ ὣς ἄγουσι δ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 506; μολυβδὶς ὥστε δ. κατέσπασεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 840 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δ. καθιέναι, ἀναιρεῖσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 533b19, 602b8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 hunting-net, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1083, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; larger than ἄρκυς, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.5, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.26, 27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, δ. ἄτης, Ἅιδου, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1078 (_anapaest meter_), “Ag.” 1115 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 932. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 lattice-work, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 11(2).165.4, 13 (Delos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 bottom of a sieve, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]