silt
From LSJ
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
they (the islands) serve to bind the silt together: P. ἀλλήλαις τῆς προσχώσεως σύνδεσμοι γιγνονται (Thuc. 2, 102).