πέδη

A. fetter : in pl., shackles, ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ πέδας ἔβαλε χρυσείας, of horses, Il. 13.36 ; of men, τοῖς ἀδίκοις ἀμφιτίθησι πέδας Sol. 4.34, cf. Thgn. 539, A. Pr. 6, Men. Her. 3, Herod. 3.95 ; πεδέων ζεῦγος pair of fetters, Hdt. 7.35 ; ἐν πέδαις (v.l. ἐς πέδας)δῆσαί τινα put one in fetters, Id. 5.77 ; αἱ πέδαι, ἐν τῇσι ἐδεδέατο ibid. ; ἐν πέδαις δῆσαι, φυλάττειν, etc., Pl. Lg. 882b, Plu. 2.181b, etc. : metaph., πέδαις ἀχαλκεύτοισι, of the robe in which Agamemnon was entangled, A. Ch. 493 ; πέδας χειροῖν καὶ ποδοῖν ib.982 : in sg., of the poisoned robe of Nessus, S. Tr. 1057 ; π. Ἑλληνικαί, of the fortresses of Chalcis, Corinth, and Demetrias, Plb. 18.11.5, etc.

2. anklet, bangle, Ar. Fr. 320.11, Philem. 81, Luc. Lex. 9.

3. of fishing-nets, E. Fr. 670.5.

II. mode of breaking in a horse by riding him in a figure-of-eight course (cf. ἱπποπέδη), X. Eq. 3.5, 7.13 ; π. ἑτερομήκης, κυκλοτερής, ib.14.