A.T. Robertson Commentary Mark 5:3

"who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain;" — Mark 5:3 (ASV)

No man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain (ουδε αλυσε ουδεις εδυνατο αυτον δησα). Instrumental case αλυσε, a handcuff (α privative and λυω, to loosen). But this demoniac snapped a handcuff as if a string.