πῐτῠο-κάμπτης,
ου,
ὁ,
A). pinebender, epith. of Sinis, who killed travellers by tying them between two pine-trees bent down so as nearly to meet, and then let go again,
Str. 9.1.4 ,
Apollod. 3.16.2 ,
Plu. Thes. 8 :—also
πῐτῠκάμπτης, prob. for
παλικάμπῃ in
AP 11.107 (
Lucill.).