Transenna, traniennæ, f. gen. Nonius. A lowpe, windowe, or casement.Transenna.Salust.A lattise set before a windowe.Per transennam aspicere.Cic.To see thorowe a latteise: to see slightly. Transenna. Plaur. A corde stretched out to take birdes or beastes: a snace: a ginne.Et per metaphoram.A deceit or subtile craft. Transenna.Of Budey is vsed for a racket to playe wyth.Ab transenna hic turdus lumbricum petit. Plau. This bird taketh a worm or baite out of the snare: this man putteth his necke in the snare.In transennam inducere aliquem. Plau. To bring or traine into the snare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
transenna (trāsenna), ae, f. (orig. perh. plaited work; hence), a noose, springe, net.I.Lit.: nunc ab transennā hic turdus lumbricum petit, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 22: in transennā demissum Vietoriae simulacrum, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 180. 21, and ap. Macr. S. 2, 9 (Hist. 2, 23, 3); so Amm. 20, 11, 22; 25, 6, 14; cf.: transenna bro/xos e)n a)fethri/ais tetame/nos, Gloss. Philox.—B.A netting, lattice-work (cf.: cancelli, fenestra): quasi per transennam praetereuntes strictim aspeximus,
as if through a lattice
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while passing
, Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 162.—II.Trop., a snare, trap (Plautinian): hunc ego hominem hodie in transennam doctis ducam dolis, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 11; cf. id. Rud. 4, 7, 10 sq.