shackle, fetter; snare
Latin word, found 14 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 1.307: tum gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.473: Retia cum pedicis laqueosque artesque dolosas
Martial, Epigrammata 1.92.14: Denique pedica, Mamuriane, satur.
All forms of pedica