The sort they used to use at that time to make prisoners miserable.
*desmoi\ *turrhnoi/: oi(=s e)xrw=nto kat' e)kei=no kairou= ei)s ta\s tw=n desmwtw=n kakouxi/as.
The headword phrase has a slightly different adjective in
Hesychius, whose (mysterious) gloss is 'the ones [the] Athenians used'. Proverbial in
Apostolius 5.97, with the same glossing as here. In
Appendix Proverbiorum 1.96 a second sentence of explanation is added: 'applied to those fettered inescapably'.
For the Etruscans see generally
tau 837,
tau 1195.
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