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πλοκ-ή , ἡ,
A.twining, twisting, Epich.171; οὐ δέχεται π. do not admit of being made into a web, Arist.GA783a12; ἡ τοῦ δικτύου π. ib.734a20; “σχοινίων πλοκαί” Dsc.3.148; βρόχου Heraclasap. Orib.48.1.1, al.
II. anything twisted or woven, web, E.IT817 (pl.), Pl. Lg.849c; mesh, “θώραξ τὴν π. λεπτότατος” PGiss.47.7 (ii A.D.).
2. histological structure, Gal.UP1.9.
III. metaph., complication of a dramatic plot, opp. λύσις, Arist.Po.1456a9; “π. δραματική” Plu.2.973e, etc.
b. interweaving, [ἐπιτιμήσεως καὶ παραμυθίας] Hermog. Meth.36.
c. αἱ τῶν σχηματισμῶν π., of rhet. figures, D.H.Th.29, cf. Alex.Fig.2.22 tit., Phoeb.Fig.p.55 S.; “π. καὶ ποιότητες” Phld.Rh. 1.165 S.; contortions of speech, Thphr.Char.1.7.
d. construction of a syllogism, “π. τοῦ συλλογισμοῦ” Phld.Rh.2.89 S., cf. Ammon. in APr.67.30, Eustr.in EN336.4.
2. web of deceit. “πλοκὰς πλέκειν” E. Ion826, cf.IA936, PMonac.6.53 (vi A.D.).
IV. harmony, in Music, Mart.Cap.9.958.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1456a.9
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 936
    • Euripides, Ion, 826
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 817
    • Plato, Laws, 849c
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 1.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 29
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