seize, hold; gripping
Ancient Greek word, found 78 times in the texts on Socratos.
Homer, Iliad 13.560: ἀλλʼ οὐ λῆθʼ Ἀδάμαντα τιτυσκόμενος καθʼ ὅμιλον
Homer, Odyssey 19.229: ἀσπαίροντα λάων· τὸ δὲ θαυμάζεσκον ἅπαντες,
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.77.4: περὶ δὲ τῶ σιῶ σύματος, αἰ μὲν λῆν, τοῖς Ἐπιδαυρίοις ὅρκον δόμεν, 〈αἰ〉 δέ, αὐτὼς ὀμόσαι.
All forms of λάω