ἐμ-πλοκή, ἡ,
braiding, κόμης [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.7, compare 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus Dam. p.2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, NT.1Pet.3.3. ] NT+4th c.BC+]
__2 scuffle, [[ PRyl. 124.28 (1st c.AD), 150.12 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II interweaving, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 1420 (uncertain)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; entanglement, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.916d (_plural_) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the matted roots of trees, [[ Philo Byzantius Paradoxographus “de Septem Miraculis” 1.5 (_plural_)] Refs]; τόποις ἐμπλοκὰς ἔχειν, of districts, to run into one another, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.4.12. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III in Mathematics texts, κατ᾽ ἐμπλοκήν, ={ἐμπλέγδην}, [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.124P., +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]