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καταπλέκω ,
A.entwine, plait, [φλοῦν] φορμοῦ τρόπον κ. Hdt.3.98.
b. in Anatomy, Pass., perh. inosculate, anastomose, in aor. -επλάκην [α^], Hp.Oss.18 (aor. part. Pass. “-πλεκεῖσι” Hsch.); also, to be entwined, matted, Sor.1.88.
c. twine round, “τὰ εὐώνυμα μέρη” Meno Iatr.16.16; compose, “τὸν ὄσχεον” Paul.Aeg.6.63.
2. metaph., implicate, “κ. τινὰ προδοσίῃ” Hdt.8.128 (as v.l.):—Pass., πόλεμος . . καταπεπλεγμένος τῇ ποικιλίᾳ in the variety of its events, complicated, Arist. Po.1459a34; to be involved, “ἐν τούτῳ ψεῦδος κατεπέπλεκτο” S.E.M. 2.71.
3. c. dat. pers., entangle, involve in contradictions, POxy. 1673.20 (ii A. D.), 903.35 (iv A. D.).
II. finish twining: hence metaph., bring to an end, τὴν ζόην, τὴν ῥῆσιν, Hdt.4.205, 8.83.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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