The corpus record

εἱργμός

eirgmos · ὁ

cage, prison

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Where it lives

Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

εἱργμός · heirgmos — LSJ

cage, prison

cage, prison, Pl. R. 495d, Phd. 82e.

2 imprisonment, coils, for malicious imprisonment

imprisonment, J. AJ 18.1.3, Plu. Profect. 2.84f: pl., Mitteis Chr. 71.10 (iv A. D.); εἱργμοὶ καὶ δεσμοί, of a snakeʼs coils, Ael. NA 17.37; εἱργμοῦ γραφή action for malicious imprisonment, Poll. 6.154.

In the wild

εἱργμοῦ · heirgmou Plato, Phaedo 82 (DIORISIS sentence 589)
εἱργμοῦ · heirgmou Plato, Phaedo 82 (DIORISIS sentence 589)
εἱργμῶν · heirgmōn Plato, Republic 6.495 (DIORISIS sentence 3815)

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.

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