In chains
Punished
Punished adjective - Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience).
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In chains and punished are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "In chains" instead an adjective "Punished".
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- In Greek myth, as punishment for ratting out Zeus, jerkass tyrant, and Manipulative Bastard Sisyphus was to be punished by being personally taken by the death god Thanatos to an especially unpleasant corner of Tartarus in chains.
Source: The Problem with Fighting Death
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