in-necto

cōnecto (less correctly, connecto, v. Ritschl, Opusc. II. 448 sq.; Gell. 2, 17, 8), nexŭi, nexum, 3, v. a. [necto], to tie, bind, fasten, or join together, to connect, entwine, link together (class.; most freq. in part. pass. and the trop. signif.); constr. with cum, inter se, the dat., or absol.

Lit.:

id (palliolum) conexum in umero laevo,

folded, gathered, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 42:

omnia inter se conexa et apta,

Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97:

omnia omnimodis,

Lucr. 2, 700:

terrestria membra marinis,

id. 2, 704; 2, 712; 3, 691:

illae (apes) pedibus conexae ad limina pendent,

Verg. G. 4, 257; cf. Sil. 2, 220:

crines,

Prop. 2, 5, 23:

nodos,

Ov. M. 12, 430:

bracchia in genibus digitis conexa tenere,

id. ib. 9, 311:

naves validis utrimque trabibus,

Tac. H. 2, 34:

Mosellam atque Ararim facta inter utrumque fossa,

id. A. 13, 53; cf.:

Adiabenis conectuntur Carduchi,

Plin. 6, 15, 17, § 44:

lata alvus (navium) sine vinculo aeris aut ferri conexa,

Tac. H. 3, 47:

ferreae laminae serie inter se conexae,

Curt. 4, 9, 3.—

Trop.

In gen.:

amicitia cum voluptate conectitur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67; Quint. 8, 3, 77:

ita sunt inter se conexa et indiscreta omnia,

id. 10, 1, 2; 5, 14, 32; cf.

Tib. 43:

membra historiae,

Quint. 9, 4, 129 al.:

quod discrimini patris filiam conectebat,

to implicate, involve, Tac. A. 16, 30; cf. id. ib. 16, 32:

causam dolori meo,

id. ib. 3, 12; id. H. 1, 65.—

Esp.,

In discourse, to connect with what precedes, join to, etc.:

facilius est enim apta dissolvere quam dissipata conectere,

Cic. Or. 71, 235:

illud non est in uno verbo translato, sed ex pluribus continuatis conectitur,

id. de Or. 3, 41, 166:

inter se pleraque conexa et apta,

id. Part. Or. 39, 137; Quint. 10, 1, 2: verba lyrae conectere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 86:

carmina secum gracili filo,

Col. 10, 227:

res ac verba,

Quint. 2, 4, 15; 9, 4, 58:

conexa oratio (opp. interrupta),

id. 9, 4, 7:

aliam majorem insaniam,

to join to, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 116; hence also: versus orationesque ejus, to quote, cite, Treb. Gall. 11 fin. —

In philos. lang., = concludo, to annex or subjoin a logical conclusion:

si enim est verum, quod ita conectitur: si quis, etc.... illud quoque verum est, etc.,

Cic. Fat. 6, 12; 7, 14:

omne, quod ipsum ex se conexum sit (e. g. si lucet, lucet) verum esse, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 30, 98.—Hence, cō-nexus, a, um, P. a., = conjunctus, connected, joined, cohering together with something (very rare):

sive aliud quid vis potius conexius (quam animus) ei (sc. corpori) fingere,

Lucr. 3, 555:

Silanum per adfinitatem conexum Germanico,

Tac. A. 2, 43;

so also without affinitas, of relationship: Caesari,

id. ib. 2, 50;

4, 66: insequitur magno jam tunc conexus amore Patroclus,

Stat. Achill. 1, 174.—

In time, immediately following:

conexi his funeribus dies,

Cic. Pis. 5, 11.—Hence, subst.: cōnexum ( conn-), i, a necessary consequence, inevitable inference:

ipsa ratio conexi, cum concesseris superius, cogit inferius concedere,

Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 96:

primumque quod est in conexo... necessarium est,

id. Fat. 7, 14; cf. id. ib. 8, 15: quod Graeci sunêmmenon axiôma dicunt, alii nostrorum conjunctum, alii conexum dixerunt, Gell. 16, 8, 9; cf. the context.—And adv.: cōnexē ( conn-), in connection, connectedly:

dicere aliquid,

Mart. Cap. 4, § 387.

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.

nexĭbĭlis, e, adj. [necto], tied or bound together (post-class.).

Lit.:

membra,

Lact. 7, 5, 10 (dub.; al. vexabilia).—

Trop.:

adversatio,

Amm. 29, 2, 11.

plĕcto, xi and xŭi, xum, 3, v. a. [root plek-; Gr. plekô, plokê; Lat. plicin sim-plic-is, im-plic-o, etc.; cf. 3. plaga].

To plait, braid, interweave (rare; mostly in the part. perf. and poet.; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: plico, flecto, necto].

Lit.:

crines plexueris,

Vulg. Judic. 16, 13:

coronam de spinis,

id. Matt. 27, 29:

plexa colligata significat ex Graeco, cui nos etiam praepositionem adicimus, cum dicimus perplexa,

Fest. p. 230 Müll.:

plexae coronae,

Lucr. 5, 1399:

flores plexi,

Cat. 64, 284:

colligationes,

Vitr. 10, 1.—

Trop.: ple-xus, a, um, P. a., involved, intricate, entangled, ambiguous (ante-class.): plexa, non falsa autumare dictio Delphis solet, Pac. ap. Non. 237, 4.—

To twist, bend, turn:

monstrabat vitulus quo se pacto plecteret,

Phaedr. 5, 9, 3 dub. (al. flecteret).

plēcto, ĕre, v. a. [plêttô], to beat, punish; in class. lang. usually in pass., to be punished, suffer punishment, be beaten.

Act. (post-class;

syn. punio): capite aliquem plectere,

Cod. Just. 9, 20, 7: quae sibi ignoscunt et plectunt deum, Aus. Idyll. 6 praef.—

Lit.:

Venusinae Plectantur silvae,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 26:

ego plectar pendens,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 43:

tergo plecti,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 105; id. Ep. 1, 2, 14. ut in suo vitio quisque plectatur, Cic. Leg. 3, 20, 46:

ut in judiciis culpa plectatur,

id. Clu. 2, 5:

jure igitur plectimur,

id. Off. 2, 8, 28:

multis in rebus neglegentiā plectimur,

because of negligence, id. Lael. 26, 85:

inscia quod crimen viderunt lumina, plector,

Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 49.—With gen.:

insimulationis falsae plecti,

App. Mag. p. 274, 14. —With abl.:

morte plectendum est (sc. peccatum),

Vulg. Deut. 21, 22.—

Transf., in gen., to blame:

cavit, ne quā in re jure plecteretur,

Nep. Att. 116.

sub-necto, nexui, xum, ĕre, v. a., to bind or tie under, bind on beneath ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. subligo).

Lit.:

antennis velum,

Ov. M. 11, 483:

cingula mammae,

Verg. A. 1, 492:

tenui de vimine circlos Cervici,

id. G. 3, 167:

subnectit fibula vestem,

id. A. 4, 139:

fragmentum clavi collo,

Plin. 28, 4, 11, § 46:

specieque comam subnexus utrāque,

wreathed, garlanded, Stat. S. 5, 3, 113 et saep.—

Trop., to add, subjoin in speaking:

ut inventioni judicium subnecterent,

Quint. 3, 3, 5 Spald.:

deinde proxima subnectens,

id. 7, 10, 7:

subnectit et hanc fabulam,

Just. 43, 4, 4; so,

dedecus,

Val. Max. 2, 6, 15:

callide subnectit, confictas a se epistulas esse,

Just. 14, 1, 11.

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.