aliud ex alio nectere

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    Necto, nectis, nexui et nexi, nexum, nectere. Virgil. Attacher, Nouer, Lier, Assembler, Faire entretenir.

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    Brachia nectere. Ouid. S'entr'embrasser, Luicter bras à bras, S'entrelacer les bras.

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    Catenas nectere alicui. Horat. Enchainer aucun.

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    Comam myrto nectere. Ouid. Mettre un chappeau de meurte.

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    Africus in glaciem frigore nectit aquas. Propert. Fait geler les eaues.

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    Nectere aliud ex alio. Cic. Attacher et lier l'un avec l'autre ou assembler, quand une chose despend et descend d'une autre.

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    Causas nectere. Virgil. Delayer, et apporter plusieurs excuses, Amener excuse sur excuse.

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    Nectere dolum alicui. Liu. Luy machiner quelque tromperie.

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    Gaudia mutua nectere inter se. Lucret. S'entredonner joye l'un à l'autre, Conjoindre leur plaisir.

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    Iurgia nectere cum aliquo. Ouid. Tanser et noiser avec aucun.

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    Necti. Liu. Quand le debteur estoit livré en servage à son creancier par faulte de le povoir payer.

necto, xŭi, sometimes xi (cf. Neue, Formenl. 2, 494 sq.), xum ( inf. pass. nectier, Cic. Rep. 2, 34, 59), 3, v. a. [with neo, kindr. to Sanscr. nah, ligare, nectere, and Gr. neô, nêthô], to bind, tie, fasten; to join, bind, or fasten together, connect.

Lit.

In gen.: nectere ligare significat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 165 Müll.:

necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores,

Verg. E. 8, 77:

catenas,

Hor. C. 1, 29, 5:

necte meo La miae coronam,

weave, make, id. ib. 1, 26, 8, so, coronas, id. ib. 4, 11, 3; id. Ep. 2, 2, 96; id. Epod. 17, 22:

laqueum alicui,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 31:

pedibus talaria,

Verg. A. 4, 239:

flavàque caput nectentur olivā,

id. ib. 5, 309:

nodum informis leti trabe nectit ab alta,

id. ib. 12, 603:

bracchia,

to fold in each other, entwine, clasp, Ov. F. 6, 329; cf.:

collo bracchia meo,

id. H. 5, 48:

comam myrto,

id. Am. 1, 2, 23:

mille venit variis florum dea nexa coronis,

id. F. 4, 495:

venit odoratos Elegeïa nexa capillos,

id. Am. 3, 1, 7; id. P. 3, 1, 124:

retia,

Prop. 3, 8, 27 (4, 7, 37):

alicui compedes,

Plin. Ep. 9, 28, 4;

Africus in glaciem frigore nectit aquas,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 48.—

In partic., to bind, fetter, confine, esp. for debt:

liber, qui suas operas in servitute pro pecuniā quādam debebat, dum solveret, nexus vocatur ut ab aere obaeratus,

enslaved for debt, Varr. L L. 7, § 105 Müll.:

cum sint propter unius libidinem omnia nexa civium liberata, nectierque postea desitum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 34, 59; cf.:

ita nexi soluti cautumque in posterum, ne necterentur,

Liv. 8, 28 fin.:

eo anno plebi Romanae velut aliud initium libertatis factum est, quod necti desierant: mutatum autem jus ob unius feneratoris simul libidinem, simul crudelitatem insignem,

id. 8, 28, 1; v. also 2. nexus, II.; Liv. 2, 27; 23:

nec carcerem nexis, sed caedibus civitatem replet,

Just. 21, 2; cf. id. 21, 1.—

Trop.

To affix, attach:

ut ex alio alia nectantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 52:

ex hoc genere causarum ex aeternitate pendentium fatum a Stoicis nectitur,

id. Top. 15, 59.—

To bind by an obligation, to oblige, make liable, bind, etc.:

sacramento nexi,

Just. 20, 4:

res pignori nexa,

i. e. pledged, pawned, Dig. 49, 14, 22, § 1.—

To join or fasten together, to connect, Cic. Or. 41, 140:

rerum causae aliae ex aliis aptae et necessitate nexae,

id. Tusc. 5, 25, 70; cf.:

omnes virtutes inter se nexae et jugatae sunt,

id. ib. 3, 8, 17:

nectere dolum,

to contrive, Liv. 27, 28:

causas inanes,

to frame, invent, bring forward, Verg. A. 9, 219:

canoris Eloquium vocale modis,

to set to harmonious measures, Juv. 7, 18:

numeris verba,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 30:

cum aliquo jurgia,

i. e. to quarrel, id. Am. 2, 2, 35:

moras,

to make, contrive, Tac. A. 12, 14:

insidias,

Val. Max. 3, 8, 5:

talia nectebant,

they thus conversed, Stat. Th. 8, 637.