The sort they used to use at that time to make prisoners miserable.
Desmoi Turrênoi: hois echrônto kat' ekeino kairou eis tas tôn desmôtôn kakouchias.
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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