A.twining round, interlacing, Arist.HA540b4; “περιπλοκαὶ γυναικῶν” Plb.2.56.7, cf. Luc.Alex.39, etc.; περιπλοκῆς δεῖται [ὁ κιττός] Plu.2.649c.
b. in the philos. of Epicurus, interlacing of atoms, Ep.1p.8U., 2p.44U. (pl.), al.; “περιπλοκὴν περιπλέκεσθαι” Arist.Fr.208.
II. metaph., of one wrestling in argument, Ph.1.199.
2. entanglement, complication, POxy.533.10 (ii/iii A. D.).
3. intricacy, περιπλοκὰς λόγων circumlocutions, E.Ph.494, cf. Hermog.Meth.8; “περιπλοκὰς λίαν ἐρωτᾷς” Antiph.74.1; τί οὖν . . π. λέγεις; Strato Com.1.35; “χωρὶς -πλοκῆς λέγειν τἀληθῆ” M.Ant.12.1.