βρόχος, ὁ,
noose, slip-knot, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.278, 22.472, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.60, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 134, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1222, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; snare for birds, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 527; θηρῶν β. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1169; ἁλοὺς βρόχων πλεκταῖς ἀνάγκαις 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 1.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; mesh of a net, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.5, etc.: _metaphorically_, β. ἀρκύων ξιφηφόροι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 729; ὡς ἂν ληφθῶσιν ἐν ταὐτῷ βρόχῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 557 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχων νομοθετεῖν 'with a halter round one's neck', [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.139. (βρόκχον] Refs 4th c.BC+] should be written in [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1099.) ] Refs 6th c.BC+]