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|lshtext=<b>com-pēs</b>: ([[conp]]-), pĕdis, f. (m. acc. compedem [[meum]], Vulg. Thren. 3, 7; <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]> [[compedes]] parati, Lact. Mort. Persec. c. 21),<br /><b>I</b> a ([[wooden]]) [[fetter]] or [[shackle]], for the feet (usu. in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>).<br /><b>I</b> Prop., nom. and acc.: jubete huic crassas conpedis inpingier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 76: ut istas conpedis Tibi adimam, id. ib. 5, 4, 30; id. Men. 1, 1, 4; id. Pers. 2, 3, 17; Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 19; gen. conpedium, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15, abl.: conpedibus levior [[filius]], id. Capt. 5, 4, 28; [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 11, 18, 18; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 77; Juv. 10, 182.—In [[sing]]. gen. compedis, Claud. in Eutr. prol. 2, 3; acc. compedem, Vulg. Thren. 3, 7; abl.: durā compede, Tib. 1, 7, 42: validā, id. 2, 6, 25; Hor. Epod. 4, 4; Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 5: magnā, Juv. 11, 80 (nom. and dat. of <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]> [[apparently]] not in [[use]]).—Prov.: [[compedes]], quas [[ipse]] fecit, ipsus ut gestet [[faber]], Aus. Idyll. 7 fin.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., fetlers, bonds, bands, chains: corporis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: ipsum Philippum [[compedes]] eas (urbes) Graeciae appellare, Liv. 32, 37, 4: grata (of the chains of [[love]]), Hor. C. 1, 33, 14: gratā compede vinctum aliquem [[puella]] [[tenet]], id. ib. 4, 11, 24: nivali compede [[vinctus]] [[Hebrus]], id. Ep. 1, 3, 3: aërias corpori imponere, of [[adverse]] winds, Varr. ap. Non. p. 28, 13.—And of a hinderance in gen.: has [[compedes]], fasces [[inquam]] hos laureatos, etc., Cic. Att. 8, 3, 5. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> As a [[female]] [[ornament]] of [[silver]], Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 151.<br /><b>compes</b>: i. q. [[compos]], acc, to Prisc. 1, p. 553.
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