esses.

What are the aids and implements of divers sorts with which he who would
enter on this field must equip himself? These and the theory of each
in particular I will now explain. With a view to success in the
work, forewarned is forearmed. Nor let such details be looked upon as
insignificant. Without them there will be an end to practical results.
(1)

(1) Or, "The question suggests itself--how many instruments and of
what sort are required by any one wishing to enter this field? A
list of these I propose to give, not omitting the theoretical side
of the matter in each case, so that whoever lays his hand to this
work may have some knowledge to go upon. It would be a mistake to
regard these details as trivial. In fact, without them the
undertaking might as well be let alone."

The net-keeper should be a man with a real passion for the work, and
in tongue a Hellene, about twenty years of age, of wiry build, agile at
once and strong, with pluck enough to overcome the toils imposed on him,
(2) and to take pleasure in the work.

(2) {toutous}, "by this, that, or the other good quality."

The ordinary small nets should be made of fine Phasian or Carthaginian
(3) flax, and so too should the road nets and the larger hayes. (4)
These small nets should be nine-threaded (made of three strandes, and
each strand of three threads), (5) five spans (6) in depth, (7) and two
palms (8) at the nooses or pockets. (9) There should be no knots in
the cords that run round, which should be so inserted as to run quite
smoothly. (10) The road net should be twelve-threaded, and the larger
net (or haye) sixteen. They may be of different sizes, the former
varying from twelve to twenty-four or thirty feet, the latter from sixty
to one hundred and twenty or one hundred and eighty feet. (11) If larger
they will be unwieldy and hard to manage. Both should be thirty-knotted,
and the interval of the nooses the same as in the ordinary small nets.
At the elbow ends (12) the road net should be furnished with nipples
(13) (or eyes), and the larger sort (the haye) with rings, and both
alike with a running line of twisted cord. The pronged stakes (14)
for the small nets should be ten palms high, (15) as a rule, but there
should be some shorter ones besides; those of unequal length will be
convenient to equalise the height on uneven ground, and those of equal
length on level. They should be sharp-tipped so as to draw out easi