πλέκ-ω, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
future πλέξω [
Refs 1st c.BC+]:
aorist ἔπλεξα [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
perfect πέπλοχα (
Attic dialect accusative to Hdn.Gr.[
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
middle,
future πλέξομαι [
Refs 5th c.AD+]:
aorist ἐπλεξάμην [
Refs 8th c.BC+] —
passive,
future πλεχθήσομαι (ἐμ-) [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; πλᾰκήσομαι (ἐπι-) [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]:
aorist ἐπλέχθην [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; but also
aorist 2 ἐπλάκην [ᾰ],
participle πλᾰκείς (ἐμ-) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also
participle κατα-πλεκείς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
perfect πέπλεγμαι [
Refs]:—
plait, twine, πλοκάμους ἔπλεξε φαεινούς [
Refs 8th c.BC+] —
middle, πεῖσμα. πλεξάμενος
having twisted me a rope, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:—
passive, κράνεα πεπλεγμένα
of basket-work, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρέωνται σειρῇσι πεπλεγμένῃσι ἐξ ἱμάντων[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2)
make by art, βωμόν [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II)
metaphorically,
devise, contrive, mostly of tortuous means, π. δόλον ἀμφί τινι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τέχνης τέχνην[
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
passive, μηχανὴ πεπλεγμένη [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2) of Poets, π. ὕμνον, ῥήματα, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
form the plot of a tragedy, opposed to λύειν, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] —hence in
passive, μῦθοι πεπλεγμένοι
complex, opposed to ἁπλοῖ, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.3) χρόνον τοῦ ζῆν π, ={διαπλέκω}[
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II.4)
compound, ἐκ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανος [
Refs 1st c.BC+]:—
passive, of words or syllables,
to be compounded, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.5)
passive,
twine oneself round, περὶ βρέτει πλεχθεὶς θεᾶς [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.6)
passive,
to be involved, entangled, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Latin
plecto, im-plico, OHG.
flehtan.)