πλοκ-ή, ἡ,
twining, twisting, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 171 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ δέχεται π. do not admit of being made into a web, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 783a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ τοῦ δικτύου π.[[ [prev. work] 734a20; σχοινίων πλοκαί 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.148 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; βρόχου Heraclasap. [[ 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 48.1.1, +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II anything twisted or woven, web, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 817 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 849c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; mesh, θώραξ τὴν π. λεπτότατος [[ “PGiss.” 47.7 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2 histological structure, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 1.9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III metaphorically, complication of a dramatic plot, opposed to λύσις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456a9; π. δραματική 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.973e, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.b interweaving, [ἐπιτιμήσεως καὶ παραμυθίας] [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ μεθόδου δεινότητος” 36. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.c αἱ τῶν σχηματισμῶν π., of rhetorical figures, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 29, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor “De Figuris” 2.22 at Title Page, 5th-6th c.AD: Phoebammon Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” p.55 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; π. καὶ ποιότητες 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.165 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; contortions of speech, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 1.7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]