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ἀμφίβληστρ-ον , τό,
A.anything thrown round:
1. casting-net, Hes.Sc.215, Hdt.1.141, 2.95; “ἀμφιβλήστρῳ περιβάλλεσθαι” Men.27, cf. Stratt.7, Epil.1, Ph.Bel.95, Ev.Matt.4.18.
b. metaph., of the garment thrown like a net over Agamemnon, A.Ag.1382, Ch.492; of the shirt of Nessus, “Ἐρινύων ὑφαντὸν ἀ.” S.Tr.1052; ἀμφίβληστρα σώματος ῥάκη rags thrown around body, E.Hel.1079.
2. fetter, bond, A.Pr.81.
3. of encircling walls, “ἀμφίβληστρα τοίχων” E.IT96.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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