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δεσμός , ὁ, pl.
A.“δεσμά” h.Merc.157, al., Thgn.459, Hdt.6.91, and so mostly in Trag., A.Pr.513, etc., and Pl.Euthphr.9a; but “δεσμοί” A.Pr. 525, E.Ba.518,634, usu. in Pl., as Lg.793b, al.: both forms in Att. Inscrr., “δεσμοί” IG2.678B48, δεσμά ib.791.31, the latter preferred by Thom. Mag.p.79R. (sg. “δεσμόν” SIG246 ii 36 (Delph.), Att. acc. to Hsch.): (δέω A):—band, bond, anything for tying and fastening, as halter, Il.6.507; mooring-cable, Od.13.100, etc.; door-latch, 21.241; yoke-strap, X.An.3.5.10: metaph., any bond of union or connexion, Pl.Ti.31c, etc.; of the vowels, Id.Sph.253a; δεσμοὶ πολιτείας, of the laws, Id.Lg.793b; εἰς τὰ δεσμοῦ for binding material, PTeb.120.70 (i B. C.).
2. in pl. (never δεσμά in this sense), bonds, chains, “ἐκ δεσμῶν λυθῆναι” A.Pr.509, 770; πρὶν ἂν ἐξ ἀγρίων δ. χαλάσῃ ib.177; “ἐν δεσμοῖσι” S.Fr.63; “εἰς δεσμοὺς ἄγειν” E.Ba.518; “δεσμοῖς” Th.7.82; ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν δ., = δεσμοφύλαξ, Luc. Tox.29: in sg., collectively, bonds, imprisonment, δ. ἀχλυόεις Epigr. ap. Hdt.5.77 ( = IG12.394); “οὐδὲν ἄξιον δεσμοῦ” Hdt.3.145; “ἐν. δ.” S.Ant.958; “ἐν δημοσίῳ δ. δεθείς” Pl.Lg.864e; “ἔδησεν ἑαυτὸν τιμησάμενος δεσμοῦ” Lys.6.21: metaph. of moral bondage, Porph.Abst.1.38, al.
3. ligature, Arist.HA 495b13, al.
4. δ. ἄρθρου in Hp.Fract.37 is expld. by Gal. adloc. as ankylosis.
5. spell, charm, Iamb.Myst.3.27.
II. = δέσμη, Pap. in Philol.80.341, Poll.2.135, Eust.862.27; “ἀσπαράγου δ.” BGU1120.14 (i B. C.); “δ. ἀργυρίου” LXX Ge.42.27; cf. “δέσις” 111.
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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