fasten

fasten down, secure, fix firmly/ concentrate, fix upon.

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dē-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to fasten down or in; and with especial reference to the terminus, to drive, fix, or fasten into (class.). —

Lit.: in campo Martio crucem ad civium supplicium defigi et constitui jubes, Cic. Rab. perd. 4; so,

tigna machinationibus immissa in flumen,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4:

sudes sub aqua,

id. ib. 5, 18, 3:

asseres in terra defigebantur,

id. B. C. 2, 2; Liv. 44, 5:

verutum in balteo,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 7:

sicam in consulis corpore,

to thrust, Cic. Cat. 1, 6; cf.:

cultrum in corde,

Liv. 1, 58 fin.:

tellure hastas,

Verg. A. 12, 130; cf. id. ib. 6, 652:

gladium superne jugulo,

Liv. 1, 25; cf. Ov. M. 13, 436 al.: cruci defiguntur, Varr. ap. Non. 221, 13:

arborem penitus terrae,

Verg. G. 2, 290:

te hodie, si prehendero, defigam in terram colaphis,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 22 (for which, shortly after, cruci affigere):

morsus in aurem,

Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34:

clavum percussum malleo in cerebrum,

Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; Eccles. 12, 11. —

Meton. (Causa pro effectu.) To fix, fasten, render immovable (rare):

defixa caelo sidera,

Hor. Epod. 17, 5; cf. Ov. M. 11, 76:

defixere aciem in his vestigiis,

have fixed them motionless, Tac. Agr. 34; cf.:

defixi et Neronem intuentes,

id. A. 13, 16:

sedeo defixus,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1:

me defixum in ora, etc.,

Prop. 1, 8, 15.—

Esp. in phrase, manus defigere, to strike hands, i. e., to close a contract as surety, to pledge one's person, Vulg. Prov. 6, 1; 22, 26.—

Trop.

In gen., to fix, fasten; to turn intently in any direction:

virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus,

Cic. Phil. 4, 5:

oculos in vultu regis,

Curt. 7, 8:

iratos oculos in te,

Ov. Am. 2, 18, 15:

in alicujus possessiones oculos defigere,

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

oculos defigere in terram,

Quint. 11, 3, 158; Curt. 9, 3.— Absol.:

oculos,

to let fall, cast down, Tac. A. 3, 1:

Aeneas defixus lumina,

Verg. A. 6, 156:

animos in ea, quae perspicua sunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 15:

disputare non vaganti oratione, sed defixa in una republica,

id. Rep. 1, 11; cf.:

in eo mentem orationemque defigit,

id. de Or. 3, 8, 31:

omnes suas curas in reip. salute,

id. Phil. 14, 5, 13; id. Verr. 1, 3; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.—

In partic.

To strike motionless, sc. with astonishment, etc.; to stupefy, astound, astonish (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

utraque simul objecta res oculis animisque immobiles parumper eos defixit,

Liv. 21, 33; so,

aliquem,

id. 3, 47; 6, 40 al.: silentium triste ita defixit omnium animos, ut, etc., Liv. 1, 29.—In the part. perf.:

dum stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno,

Verg. A. 1, 495; 6, 156; 7, 249; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 14; Liv. 8, 7; Tac. A. 1, 68; 13, 5 et saep.—

Religious t. t.

To declare fixedly, firmly, unalterably:

QVAE AVGVR VITIOSA, DIRA DEFIXERIT, IRRITA SVNTO,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8 fin. —

(Because, in making imprecations, the waxen image of him for whom destruction was to be prepared, or his name written in wax, was stuck through with a needle; cf. Ov. H. 6, 91 sq., and Voss upon Verg. E. 8, 80.) To bewitch, enchant; to curse any thing:

caput alicujus dira imprecatione,

Sen. Ben. 6, 35:

defigi imprecationibus,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19:

nomina cerā,

Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; cf.:

DEFIXA NOMINA,

Inscr. Orell. 3726:

regis animum Iolchiacis votis,

Verg. Cir. 376.—

To censure, reprove a thing:

culpam,

Pers. 5, 16.

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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.

rĕ-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To bind back or behind, to bind or fasten up, to bind fast (freq. and class.).

Lit.: aspicite (Prometheum) religatum asperis Vinctumque saxis, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.:

trahit Hectorem ad currum religatum Achillis,

id. ib. 1, 44, 105; and:

(Andromedam) ad duras religatam bracchia cautes Vidit,

Ov. M. 4, 671; 683:

manus post terga,

Suet. Vit. 17:

aliquem inter duos currus,

Flor. 1, 3, 8: remos struppis, Liv. Andron. ap. Isid. 19, 4, 9:

flavam comam,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.:

religata comas in nodum,

id. ib. 2, 11, 24:

religata crines,

id. ib. 4, 11, 5:

navem ferreis manibus injectis,

fastened with grapplingirons, grappled, Caes. B. C. 2, 6:

transversas trabes axibus,

id. ib. 2, 9, 2; cf. id. ib. § 5;

2, 10: restim ad pinnam muri,

Liv. 8, 16:

religato pro foribus cane,

Suet. Vit. 16:

religatos rite videbat Carpere gramen equos,

Verg. A. 9, 352:

capillum in vertice,

Tac. G. 38:

desectam herbam,

to bind together, tie up, Col. 2, 18, 5; cf.:

folia lactucae,

Plin. 19, 8, 39, § 131:

robora catenis,

Luc. 2, 671:

catenā religari,

Ov. H. 10, 89:

catenā aliquem,

id. Am. 1, 6, 1; Flor. 3, 19:

religavit (Raphael) illud (daemonium) in deserto,

Vulg. Tob. 8, 3. —

In partic., nautical t. t., to fasten or moor a ship to the shore:

naves ad terram religare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 15; Plin. Pan. 82, 2 (with revincire):

ab aggere classem,

Verg. A. 7, 106:

litore Threïcio classem,

Ov. M. 13, 439:

religata in litore pinus,

id. ib. 14, 248; Hor. C. 1, 32, 7; id. S. 1, 5, 19; cf.:

funem (navis) in Cretam,

Cat. 64, 174:

ab Emathio litore funem,

Luc. 7, 860:

funes ex arboribus ripae,

Dig. 1, 8, 5 pr.—

Trop., to bind, fasten, chain, fetter:

quae (prudentia) si extrinsecus religata pendeat, etc.,

bound to external things, Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 37:

hoc vinculo pietatis obstricti Deo et religati,

Lact. 4, 28, 3; cf. id. 4, 28, 12:

dapibusque simul religataque somno agmina,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 472.—

To unbind (only poet. and in post-class. prose):

Cybele religat juga manu,

Cat. 63, 84 (for which id. 63, 76:

resolvens juga): vitem resolvere ac religare,

Pall. 3, 13, 2.

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fīgo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic part. perf. ficta, Lucr. 3, 4; Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 4), v. a. [Gr. sphing-ô, to bind fast; sphigmos, phimos, muzzle; cf. fīlum, for figlum. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 186; Germ. dick. dicht; Engl. thick. etc., Corss. Krit. Nachtr. p. 233], to fix, fasten, drive or thrust in, attach, affix (class.; cf.: pango, configo, defigo).

Lit., constr. aliquid, aliquid in with abl. ( poet. also in with acc., or aliquid with abl. only):

imbrices medias clavulis,

Cato, R. R. 21, 3:

palum in parietem,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4:

mucrones in cive an in hoste,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6:

tabulam decreti Caesaris aut beneficii,

to post up, id. ib. 1, 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 12, 5 fin.:

Antonius accepta grandi pecunia fixit legem a dictatore comitiis latam,

i. e. posted it up as having been carried, id. Att. 14, 12, 1; cf.:

adsentiri, ne qua tabula ullius decreti Caesaris figeretur,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

fixit leges pretio atque refixit,

Verg. A. 6, 622:

quique aera legum vetustate delapsa, noscerent figerentque,

Tac. H. 4, 40:

nec verba minacia aere fixo legebantur,

Ov. M. 1, 91:

quam damnatis crucem servis fixeras,

hadst fixed in the ground, erected, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 12:

feraces plantas humo,

to plant, set, Verg. G. 4, 115:

clavos verticibus,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 5:

cuneos,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 109 (dub.):

veribus trementia (frusta),

to fix on spits, Verg. A. 1, 212:

spicula pectore,

Prop. 2, 13, 2 (3, 4, 2 M.);

for which: harundo in vertice fixa,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 7:

cristas vertice,

Verg. A. 10, 701:

fumantes taedas sub pectore,

id. ib. 7, 457:

notas in collo dente,

to impress, Tib. 1, 8, 38:

virus in venas per vulnera,

injects, Cic. Arat. 432: vestigia, plants his steps, i. e. moves on, Verg. A. 6, 159:

arma quae fixa in parietibus fuerant,

fastened up, hung up, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; cf.:

scuta sublime fixa,

id. ib. 2, 31, 67:

arma ad postem Herculis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5:

arma thalamo,

Verg. A. 4, 495:

arma Troïa hic,

id. ib. 1, 248:

clipeum postibus,

id. ib. 3, 287:

dona Laurenti Divo,

id. ib. 12, 768: ID AES AD STATVAM LORICATAM DIVI IVLII, S. C. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 13:

qui spolia ex hoste fixa domi haberent,

Liv. 23, 23, 6; 38, 43, 11:

navalem coronam fastigio Palatinae domus,

Suet. Claud. 17:

luteum opus celsā sub trabe (hirundo),

Ov. F. 1, 158: ipse summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.):

aliquem cruci,

nail, Quint. 7, 1, 30; Suet. Dom. 10:

corpus lacerum in crucem (al. cruce),

Just. 21, 4 fin.:

figit in virgine vultus,

fixes, Verg. A. 12, 70:

oculos solo,

id. ib. 1, 482:

oculos in terram,

Sen. Ep. 11: in poet. transf.:

oculos horrenda in virgine fixus,

Verg. A. 11, 507 (cf.:

defixus lumina vultu,

id. ib. 6, 156; Tac. A. 3, 1):

Caesar in silentium fixus,

Tac. A. 6, 50 (56):

obstipo capite et figentes lumine terram,

Pers. 3, 80:

foribus miser oscula figit,

kisses, Lucr. 4, 1179:

oscula dulcia,

Verg. A. 1, 687:

sedem Cumis,

to fix his abode, Juv. 3, 2:

domos,

Tac. A. 13, 54.—

Transf., to fix by piercing through, to transfix, pierce (cf. configo, II.):

hunc intorto figit telo,

Verg. A. 10, 382:

hunc jaculo acuto,

Ov. M. 10, 131: hostes telis, Auct. B. Alex. 30 fin.:

fixisse puellas gestit (Cupido),

Tib. 2, 1, 71:

cervos,

Verg. E. 2, 29:

dammas,

id. G. 1, 308; id. A. 5, 515; Sil. 1, 305:

cutem (clavi),

Sen. Prov. 3:

olli per galeam fixo stetit hasta cerebro,

Verg. A. 12, 537:

aprum,

Juv. 1, 23:

figar a sagitta,

Ov. H. 16, 278:

vulnus,

to inflict, Mart. 1, 61, 4.

Trop.

To fix, fasten, direct.

With in and abl.: ego omnia mea studia, omnem operam, curam, industriam, cogitationem, [p. 749] mentem denique omnem in Milonis consulatu fixi et locavi, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 3.—

With in and acc. (rare):

fixus in silentium,

Tac. A. 6, 50.—

In other constructions:

beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53:

nostras intra te fige querelas,

Juv. 9, 94:

penitus hoc se malum fixit,

Sen. Tranq. 15:

nequitiae fige modum tuae,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 2. —

(Acc. to I. B.) Of speech, to sting; taunt, rally a person:

aliquem maledictis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 93:

adversarios,

id. Or. 26, 89.—Hence, fixus, a, um, P. a., fixed, fast, immovable.

Lit. (very rare):

illud maneat et fixum sit,

Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

inque tuis nunc Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,

i. e. firmly fixed in, Lucr. 3, 4; cf.

in the foll.: astra,

the fixed stars, Manil. 2, 35; so,

flammae,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 15.— Far more freq.,

Trop.:

vestigia (integritatis) non pressa leviter, sed fixa ad memoriam illius provinciae sempiternam,

Cic. Sest. 5, 13:

non ita fixum, ut convelli non liceret,

id. Clu. 45, 126: fixum et statutum, id. Mur., 30, 62; cf.:

consilium fixum,

id. Att. 6, 14, 2:

animo fixum immotumque sedere, ne, etc.,

Verg. A, 4, 15: fixum est, with a subj.-clause, it is fixed, determined, Sil. 2, 364; 3, 114:

decretum stabile, fixum, ratum,

Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 27; cf.:

ratum, fixum, firmum,

permanent, id. ib. 2, 46, 141:

illud fixum in animis vestris tenetote,

fixed, impressed, id. Balb. 28, 64: quae perpetuo animo meo fixa manebunt, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 3.— Adv.: fixe, fixedly (late Lat.):

ubi tenacius habitabit et fixius,

Aug. Ep. 6 fin.

in-necto, nexŭi, nexum, 3 (innectier for innecti, Prud. Psych. 375), v. a., to tie, join, bind, attach, connect, or fasten to, together, or about.

Lit.:

paribus palmas amborum innexuit armis,

Verg. A. 5, 425:

colla auro,

id. ib. 8, 661:

tempora sertis,

to deck, garland, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 3:

fauces laqueo,

to encircle, id. M. 10, 378:

colla lacertis,

id. ib. 11, 240:

bracchia collo,

Stat. Th. 4, 26:

ambos innectens manibus,

id. ib. 1, 511:

mancipia compedibus,

Col. 11, 1, 22: innecti cervicibus, to fasten upon, cling to, or embrace the neck, Tac. H. 4, 46; cf.:

tunc placuit caesis innectere vincula silvis,

Luc. 2, 670; v. Orelli ad Hor. Epod. 17, 72.— With acc.:

nodos et vincula rupit, Queis innexa pedem malo pendebat ab alto,

Verg. A. 5, 511:

vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis,

id. ib. 6, 281.—

Trop.

In gen., to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive:

causas innecte morandi,

Verg. A. 4, 51:

moras,

Stat. Th. 5, 743:

fraudem clienti,

Verg. A. 6, 609.—

In partic.

To entangle, implicate:

innexus conscientiae alicujus,

Tac. A. 3, 10.—

To join, connect:

Hyrcanis per affinitatem innexus erat,

Tac. A. 6, 36:

motus animi innexi implicatique vigoribus quibusdam mentium,

Gell. 19, 2, 3:

mentem, i. e. veneficio illigare,

Sen. Hipp. 416.

rĕ-vincĭo, vinxi, vinctum, 4, v. a.

To bind back or backwards; to bind around, bind fast, fasten (class.; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

nisi esset (terra) caelo revincta,

Lucr. 5, 553:

ancorae pro funibus ferreis catenis revinctae,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

tignis in contrariam partem revinctis,

id. ib. 4, 17; cf.:

trabes introrsus,

id. ib. 7, 23:

stipites demissi et ab infimo revincti,

id. ib. 7, 73:

navigium (with religare),

Plin. Pan. 82, 2:

aliquem ad saxa,

to bind fast, Ov. M. 11, 212; cf.:

zonam de poste,

id. ib. 10, 379:

errantem Mycono e celsā Gyaroque revinxit,

Verg. A. 3, 76: caput tortā angue, bound around, Varr. Atacin. ap. Charis. p. 70 P.; cf.:

latus ense,

to gird, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 11:

templum Velleribus niveis et festā fronde revinctum,

Verg. A. 4, 459.—

In a Greek construction: ecce manūs juvenem interea post terga revinctum trahebant,

with his hands tied behind him, Verg. A. 2, 57:

qui recitat lanā fauces et colla revinctus,

wrapped up, Mart. 6, 41, 1.— Poet.:

latices in glaciem revincti,

bound, stiffened, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 167.—

Trop., to bind, fasten, etc.:

mentem amore,

Cat. 61, 33:

urbes legibus,

Claud. B. Gild. 47:

te sibi generum fraternā prole, id. Nupt. Honor. et Mar. 36: miserā in peste revinctos confodiunt,

Val. Fl. 6, 418; 4, 708.—

To unbind, loose:

quempiam (opp. alligare, and = resolvere),

Col. 1, 8, 16.

vincĭo, vinxi, vinctum ( part. vinciturus, Petr. 45, 10), 4, v. a., to bind, to bind or wind about; to fetter, tie, fasten; to surround, encircle, etc. (class., esp. in the trop. sense; syn.: ligo, necto, constringo).

Lit.:

illum aput te vinctum adservato domi,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 95; 4, 4, 98; Ter. And. 5, 2, 24:

hunc abduce, vinci, quaere rem,

id. Ad. 3, 4, 36:

fratres meos in vincula conjecit. Cum igitur eos vinxerit, etc.,

Cic. Dejot. 7, 22:

facinus est vincire civem Romanum,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170:

equites Romani vincti Apronio traditi sunt,

id. ib. 2, 3, 14, §

37: trinis catenis vinctus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53:

post terga manus,

Verg. A. 11, 81:

rotas ferro,

Quint. 1, 5, 8:

ulmum appositis vitibus,

Ov. H. 5, 47:

alte suras purpureo cothurno,

Verg. A. 1, 337:

tempora novis floribus,

Hor. C. 4, 1, 32.—In a Greek construction:

boves vincti cornua vittis,

Ov. M. 7, 429:

anule, formosae digitum vincture puellae,

about to encircle, id. Am. 2, 15, 1.—

In partic.

To compress, lace:

demissis umeris esse, vincto pectore, ut, gracilae sient,

i. e. tightly laced, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 23.—

To compass, surround, guard, mid.:

Caesarem quidem aiunt acerrime dilectum habere, loca occupare, vinciri praesidiis,

Cic. Att. 7, 18, 2 B. and K. (al. vincire, i. e. loca).—

To make firm, harden, fix, fasten:

humus vincta pruinā,

Petr. 123 (but the true reading, Ov. P. 2, 2, 96, is juncta; so Sall. C. 55, 4).—

Trop., to bind, fetter, confine, restrain, attach:

vi Veneris vinctus,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 32:

religione vinctus astrictusque,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 42, § 90; cf.:

si turpissime se illa pars animi geret... si vinciatur et constringatur amicorum propinquorumque custodiis,

id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48.—Of sleep, etc.:

nisi vinctos somno velut pecudes trucidandos tradidero,

Liv. 5, 44, 7:

ut somno vincta jacebas,

Ov. M. 11, 238:

in plaustra somno vinctos coniciunt,

Tac. A. 1, 65:

mentem multo Lyaeo,

Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 21:

inimica ora (magicis artibus),

Ov. F. 2, 581:

lectum certo foedere,

Prop. 3, 20, 21 (4, 19, 11):

spadonis animum stupro,

Tac. A. 4, 10:

esse tuam vinctam numine teste fidem,

Ov. H. 20, 212:

aliquem pacto matrimonio,

Tac. A. 6, 45.—Of speech:

membra (orationis) sunt numeris vincienda,

i. e. arranged rhythmically, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

verba vincta, oratio vincta (opp. soluta),

Quint. 11, 2, 47; 9, 4, 19.