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δέσμ-ιος

desmios

binding, binding as with a spell, enchaining, bound, captive

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Where it lives

Philemon 2 · 60.98/10k
Ephesians 2 · 8.31/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Bacchae 3 · 3.99/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Acts 5 · 2.78/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k

What it meant

δέσμ-ιος · desm-ios — LSJ

binding, binding as with a spell, enchaining

binding: metaph., binding as with a spell, enchaining, c. gen., ὕμνος ἐξ Ἐρινύων δ. φρενῶν A. Eu. 332 (lyr.), cf. 306.

II bound, captive, on leash

Pass., bound, captive, S. Aj. 299, Ph. 608, E. Ba. 226, POxy. 580 (ii A. D.), etc.; on leash, [κύων] prob. in Aen. Tact. 31.32; δ. φυγών, = ἐκ δεσμῶν, E. Ba. 792.

In the wild

δέσμιος · desmios Aeschylus, Eumenides 328–333
δέσμιος · desmios Aeschylus, Eumenides 341–348
δεσμίους · desmious Euripides, Bacchae 226–227
δέσμιος · desmios Euripides, Bacchae 258–259
δέσμιος · desmios Euripides, Bacchae 792
δέσμιοι · desmioi Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 179)

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