chain
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. δεσμός, ὁ, V. δεσμώματα, τά, ἀμφίβληστρα, τά, ψάλια, τά, P. ἅλυσις, ἡ.
chains of brass: V. χαλκεύματα, τά.
events long-past I have found to be as I have related, though they involve difficulties as far as trusting every link in the chain of evidence: P. τὰ μὲν οὖν παλαιὰ τοιαῖτα εὖρον χαλεπὰ ὄντα παντὶ ἑξῆς τεκμηρίῳ πιστεῦσαι (Thuc. 1, 20).
put in chains, verb transitive: P. and V. δεῖν, δεσμεύειν.
in chains: use adj., Ar. and V. δέσμιος, or P. and V. δεδεμένος (perf. part. pass. δεῖν).
verb transitive
P. and V. δεῖν, συνδεῖν, V. ἐκδεῖν; see bind.
fetter: P. and V. πεδᾶν (Plato but rare P.), ποδίζειν (Xen., and Sophocles, Fragment), Ar. and P. συμποδίζειν
