Linum
(
λίνον). Flax; thence anything made with flax; as, a
sewing-thread; a fishing-line; a string of pearls; a string bound round the tablets (
tabellae) upon which letters or any other documents were written, and then
tied in a knot, over which the seal was affixed (
Cat. iii. 5;
Plaut. Bacch. iv. 3,
79-111; cf.
Epistola); a net, the meshes of
which were made of string.