δεσμ-εύω,
fetter, put in chains, [[ hymnus ad Bacchum 17, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 616, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 808e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; tie together, as corn in the sheaf, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 481; δ. ἀγκάλας “PLond.” 1.131r426 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χόρτον [[ “PFlor.” 322.31 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; δ. ἔκ τινος bind fast to.., [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.93.4, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 2.1.3. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II lay snares for, [[ LXX.1Ki.24.12. ] LXX]