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strategies used by hunting and fishing documented by the ancient Roman mosaic floors of the Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina. Strange

I Romani loved to hunt you

dedicated with enthusiasm and competence. From the second century AD, the hunt will be increasingly practiced by the aristocracy of Rome.

stands out the hunting of animals on all fours (venatio) and made the hunting of birds (aucupium).

hunting always begins with the sacrifice to the goddess Diana to which they solemnly promised the booty in exchange for his assistance.

Men on horseback chased the animal that was hit with an exhausted bat but there was also a venatio in grand style, a real hunt, in which the fair, found and chased by dogs, whose breeding and hunting instinct were treated with a special attention from slave (magister canum), was pushed to their nets and then killed with venabulum, a weapon with a long wooden handle with an iron off the end and with two sharp peaks at the base.

slaves brought various weapons necessary for a good hunting knife the (culter venatorius), the sling (Fund), the javelin (iacula, lancae) to hit distance and the fact venabulum was needed to face the ferocious animal and finish it but keeping a safe distance from the hunter.

hunt wild boar for example, because the animal was considered savage and his capture is very dangerous for Hunters for the dogs, was conducted in groups.

The hunt was part of the Games as well as in the Floralia where you hunted hares, deer and plains game anyway, and for games in the arena, gladiators, providing for the ludi venatio earlier in the day.

Thus, in very different provinces of the Empire captured crocodiles, peacocks, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, lions, tigers, ostriches, etc.. send them to live in Rome or in the provinces where they then waited a horrible end in circuses and amphitheatres. Venationes a show that was very cruel but very pleased the Romans will be enriched with all types of fauna present in the remotest areas of the Great Empire.
Corridor of the great hunt of the Villa Romana del Casale with its more than two hundred feet of figures, to that of the most amazing scholars, tells us in minute detail on capturing wild animals for venationes (Villa seems to be in a studied censorship in ludi arena. Costantino abolish the gladiatorial games in 325 AD

However, they do not died out completely and in some instances continued to be practiced until the fifth century. The fighting was finally abolished under Honorius (395-423 AD), but continued venationes, which ceased to be practiced only in 523 AD).

Pure required some skill 's aucupium or hunting birds.
The hunter rather than hit them with sling straps and put appropriate networks in the bushes or spread of panic (obtained from the berries of the mistletoe) or some canes tied a bird blind in the appropriate place to make a draw and waited for the birds did capture .

Many also were engaged in fishing using hook and line and a small network (iaculum) with a string that gripped the edges, and of the baskets were used to wicker close the mouth (nassae) which increased real traps for small fish while the larger the needed trident.

still in our area many fishing enthusiasts delight to fish in natural reservoirs (eg. In the near dam on the bridge Olivo) with satisfactory results: they were even caught pike weighing 7-8 pounds, as well as other freshwater fish. This shows that from the time when the Romans were fishing on the river Gela, near the Villa, to date, fishing has never ceased. Moreover, even the hunting is widely practiced in our area that sees stocks popular all over Sicily.

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