FETTER Copy link • FETTER 1. v. compedes indere alicui: pedica coartare (Apul.): pedica capere (equum, Liv.). To be fettered, compedibus astrictum esse: ☞ compedire prae- and post-classical, Varr., ap. Non., Cat.; servi compediti. IMPROPR., compede tenere aliquem; pedicis alicujus rei alligare aliquem (Apul.). Vid: To HAMPER. 2. s. compes (shackle, for the lower part of the thigh, to prevent escape, mostly made of wood, but also of iron; tropically like vinculum = means of coercion; Vid: Cic., Tusc., 1, 31, 75, vincula and compedes corporis, i. e., the body holding the soul in fetters; and IMPROP.; e.g., grata compede juvenem tenere): pedica (an iron for fettering the feet; e.g., of a slave, an ox, a horse on the pasture, etc.). To put anybody in fetters, alicui compedes indere: the mind when freed from the fetters of the body, animus corpore solutus. If fetter = chain, Vid: FEUD, Feod [Vid: FEE]. Deadly quarrel, etc., inimicitiae, etc. Vid: QUARREL.