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net in the hanging-women simile

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net in the hanging-women simile
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A net set in a thicket traps nesting thrushes or doves in the hanging-women simile.

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“beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them”

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“thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket”

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Book 22 · Passage 47

So saying he made a ship’s cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women’s feet should touch the ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably. {178} Their feet moved convulsively for a while, but not for very long.