Lewis & Short

3. plăga, ae, f. [root plek-; Gr. πλέκω, weave, entwine; cf. plecto, plico, du-plex],

  1. I. a hunting-net, snare, gin (class.; syn.: retia, casses).
    1. A. Lit.: canes compellunt in plagas lupum, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 35: tendere plagas, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68: extricata densis Cerva plagis, Hor. C. 3, 5, 32; Ov. M. 7, 768: nodosae, id. F. 6, 110: inque plagam nullo cervus agente cadit (al. plagas), id. A. A. 3, 428: aut trudit … Apros in obstantes plagas, Hor. Epod. 2, 32.
      Of the spider’s web: illa difficile cernuntur, atque ut in plagis liniae offensae praecipitant in sinum, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 82.
      Sing. (very rare): sic tu … tabulam tamquam plagam ponas, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68.
    2. B. Trop., a snare, trap, toil (class.; syn. pedica): se impedire in plagas, Plaut. Mil. 4, 9, 11: se in plagas conicere, id. Trin. 2, 1, 11: quas plagas ipsi contra se Stoici texuerunt, Cic. Ac. 2, 48, 147: in illas tibi majores plagas incidendum est, id. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 151: Antonium conjeci in Caesaris Octaviani plagas, id. Fam. 12, 25, 4: speculabor, ne quis nostro consilio venator assit cum auritis plagis, i. e. arrectis attentisque auribus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 14.
      Sing. (rare) hanc ergo plagam effugi, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 5.
  2. II. A bedcurtain, a curtain (ante-class.; v. plagula), Varr. ap. Non. 162, 28: eburneis lectis et plagis sigillatis, id. ib. 378, 9: chlamydes, plagae, vela aurea, id. ib. 537, 23.