by means of torture
by means of torture, Man. 4.197.
The corpus record
βᾰσᾰν-ηδόν
basanedon
by means of torture
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.