Ἀπεπλίξατο

Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "he would not have trotted off lightly."¹ Meaning escaped easily and nonchalantly and got away. For pli/c ["trot"] [is] a pace; and pli/gmata [are] leaps. Whence also [we find] "astride" [expressed by] a)mfipli/c in Sophocles in Triptolemos.² And Homer [writes]: "well did they gallop, well did they stride with their feet."³ But they used to say pli/ca also of the distance from the thumb to the forefinger. Also the bone between the thighbones.⁴