πολύ-πλοκος, ον,
(πλέκω) tangled, σπεῖραι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 481 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καμπαί, of the labyrinth, [[ “Tragica Adespota” 34 ] Refs]; of the brain, with many convolutions, [[ 3rd c.BC: Erasistratus Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.603, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 8.13. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, tangled, complex, θηρίον Τυφῶνος -ώτερον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 230a; -ωτάτη ἡ ἐν ὅπλοις τάξις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 11.5; μέτρα μολπᾶς 3rd c.BC: Simmias 26.20; πεσσῶν μορφαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 197 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -κως[[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 54: _neuter_ as ] Refs 1st c.BC+] adverb, φωνὴ πολύπλοκον ἠχοῦσα[[ conjecture in 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 40. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2.b of the poulp, crafty, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 215 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; of persons and thoughts, subtle, acute, tortuous, οὔπω.. ἤκουσα -ωτέρας γυναικός [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 435 (Lyric poetry); π. νόημα [prev. work] 463 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; -πλοκοι μεθόδων παραλογισμοί [[ LXX.Est.8(16).13; ὑπόδοξοι καὶ π. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 1.16; π. ἔννοιαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 10.8, compare 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Fragmenta Historica - HGM” p.218 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator (_comparative_). ] LXX+4th c.BC+]
__2.c complex, φύσις, opposed to ἁπλῆ, [[ 5th c.AD: Hermias Alexandrinus Philosophus “in Platonis Phaedrum scholia” p.186A. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]