The corpus record

πάγη

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anything that fixes

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

anything that fixes, fastens, snare, noose, fowling-net

anything that fixes or fastens, snare, noose, ὑπὸ πάγης ἁλόντος Hdt. 2.121.εʹ; ἐν τῇ π. ἐνέχεσθαι ib. β, cf. Pl. Lg. 824a; fowling-net, X. Cyr. 1.6.39.

2 trap, snare

metaph., trap, snare, πάγας ἐραξάμεσθα (leg. ἐφραξάμεσθα) A. Ag. 822; π. ὑπόπυροι, of the beacons of Nauplius, S. Fr. 435.

In the wild

πάγας · pagas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 821–826
πάγῃ · pagēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.6 (DIORISIS sentence 4648)
πάγας · pagas Herodotus, Histories 2.121B.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2389)
πάγῃ · pagēi Herodotus, Histories 2.121B.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2390)
πάγῃ · pagēi Herodotus, Histories 2.121C.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2393)
πάγης · pagēs Herodotus, Histories 2.121E.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2416)

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Where it came from

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