ἐπίδεσμος
From LSJ
ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A upper or outer bandage, Hp.Off.9, Ar.V.1440, Arist.HA630a6, Ph. Bel.96.19: metaph., of fortresses as the `fetters' of Greece, Str.9.4.15: heterocl. pl. ἐπίδεσμα Ael.NA8.9:—also ἐπί-δεσμον, τό, Gal.13.686.
German (Pape)
[Seite 936] ὁ, der Verband, die Bandage, Ar. Vesp. 1440; Arist. H. A. 9, 44; Medic.
