toils

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substantive

snare: P. and V. πάγη, ἡ (Plato).

Met., P. and V. ἄρκυς, ἡ (Plato), δίκτυον, τό (Xen. also Ar.), βρόχος, ὁ (Plato).

trap: P. θήρατρον, τό (Xen.); see snare.

Met., V. ἄρκυς, ἡ, ἄγρευμα, τό; see also net.

in the toils of justice: V. τῆς δίκης ἐν ἕρκεσιν (Aesch., Agamemnon 1611).

in the midst of the toils: V. ἐν μέσοις ἀρκυστάτοις (Sophocles, Electra 1476).

I drove him into the toils of woe: V. εἰσέβαλλον εἰς ἕρκη κακά (Sophocles, Ajax 60).

rushing into the meshes of the toils: V. ἐσπεσοῦσα δικτύων βρόχους (Euripides, Orestes 1315).