The corpus record

πασσᾰλ-εύω

passaleuo

peg, pin, fasten to, drive in like a peg

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k

What it meant

πασσᾰλ-εύω · passal-euō — LSJ

peg, pin, fasten to

peg, pin, or fasten to, λαβών νιν . . π. πρὸς πέτραις A. Pr. 56 ; λάφυρα . . δόμοις ἐπασσάλευσαν Id. Ag. 579 ; ὡς πασσαλεύσῃ κρᾶτα τριγλύφοις E. Ba. 1214.

2 drive in like a peg, bolt

drive in like a peg or bolt, σφηνὸς . . γνάθον στέρνων διαμπὰξ π. A. Pr. 65.

In the wild

ἐπασσάλευσαν · epassaleusan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 577–579
πεπασσαλευμένος · pepassaleumenos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 112–113
πασσάλευε · passaleue Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 55–56
πασσάλευʼ · passaleuʼ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 64–65
πασσάλευε · passaleue Euripides, Rhesus 180 (DIORISIS sentence 125)

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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