Λυγιζόμενος

[Meaning] turning oneself, covering oneself.¹ [sc. The term comes] from withies.² A withy is a fibrous plant.³ "He bound [them] with pliant withies." Homer [sc. says this].⁴ And Plato in Gorgias [says]: "[competent at] turning about in all twists, going through all means of escape, escaping by bending himself, so as not to furnish justice".⁵ But some [sc. say that] lugi/zein [means] means to question with the punishment of torture. Also the whips with which athletes are struck are called withies.⁶