A.noose, slip-knot, Od.11.278, 22.472, Hdt.4.60, Democr. 134, S.Ant.1222, etc.; snare for birds, Ar.Av.527; “θηρῶν β.” E.Hel. 1169; “ἁλοὺς βρόχων πλεκταῖς ἀνάγκαις” Xenarch.1.8; mesh of a net, X.Cyn.2.5, etc.: metaph., “β. ἀρκύων ξιφηφόροι” E.HF729; “ὡς ἂν ληφθῶσιν ἐν ταὐτῷ βρόχῳ” A.Ch.557; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχων νομοθετεῖν 'with a halter round one's neck', D.24.139. (βρόκχον shd. be written in Thgn.1099.)
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