A.bind by taking hostages, [τοὺς δούλους] ταῖς τεκνοποΐαις ἐ. bind slaves to one's service by the pledges of wives and children, Arist. Oec.1344b17, cf. Phld.Oec.p.33J.:—Med., “νήπιοι ψυχῆς φίλτρα -εύσασθαι δυνάμενα στρατηγὸν πρὸς πατρίδα” Onos.1.12; also, produce by hostages, “φιλίαν” Str.6.4.2; bind to oneself, D.S.27.7; win over, SIG 656.21 (Abdera, ii B. C., found at Teos).
ἐξομηρ-εύω ,
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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