πέδη, ἡ,
(πέζα) fetter: in plural, shackles, ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ πέδας ἔβαλε χρυσείας, of horses, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.36 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of men, τοῖς ἀδίκοις ἀμφιτίθησι πέδας [[ 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.34, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 539, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 3, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.95 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; πεδέων ζεῦγος pair of fetters, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν πέδαις (variant{ἐς πέδας}) δῆσαί τινα put one in fetters, [[ [prev. author] 5.77; αἱ πέδαι, ἐν τῇσι ἐδεδέατο [prev. passage]; ἐν πέδαις δῆσαι, φυλάττειν, etc., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 882b, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.181b, etc.: _metaphorically_, πέδαις ἀχαλκεύτοισι] Refs 5th c.BC+], of the robe in which Agamemnon was entangled, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 493; πέδας χειροῖν καὶ ποδοῖν [prev. work] 982 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in singular, of the poisoned robe of Nessus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1057 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. Ἑλληνικαί, of the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.11.5, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__2 anklet, bangle, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 320.11, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 81, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of fishing-nets, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 670.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II mode of breaking in a horse by riding him in a figure-of-eight course (compare ἱπποπέδη), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 3.5, 7.13; π. ἑτερομήκης, κυκλοτερής, [prev. work] 14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]