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Compes

（πέδη).

1.

A fetter or shackle for the ankles, and sometimes so constructed as to deprive the prisoner almost wholly of the power of walking.

2.

An ornamental anklet worn by women. See Periscelis.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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