A.put in motion by strings, of puppets, D.S.34.34, M.Ant.7.3 (Pass.): esp. metaph., draw as by a string, Phld.Hom. p.62 O.; “ἡ φαντασία σύρει ἡμᾶς καὶ ν. πρὸς αὑτήν” Porph. ap. Stob.2.8.40, cf. Ph.1.28; “καθ᾽ ὁρμὴν -σπαστεῖσθαι” M.Ant.6.16.
II. Pass., to be caught by drawing a string, of birds, Ath.9.391a.