Bonds
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
bonds · chains · iron fetters · shackles · withes
in the texts
Bacchae
The bindings Pentheus orders used against the captured Bacchae and the disguised Dionysus, which prove powerless against divine will.
And having bound them in iron fetters, I will soon stop them from this ill-working revelry.
Of their own accord, the chains were loosed from their feet and keys opened the doors without human hand.
He found a bull by the stable where he took and shut me up, and threw shackles around its knees and hooves, breathing out fury, dripping sweat from his body, gnashing his teeth in his lips.
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
The restraints the pirates try unsuccessfully to fasten on Dionysus.
They sought to bind him with rude bonds, but the bonds would not hold him, and the withes fell far away from his hands and feet: