contexta+sceleribus+scelera

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.