texō

textus, ūs, m. (texo), I) das Gewebe, Geflecht, u. übtr. übh. die Zusammenfügung, Lucr., Plin. u.a. – II) bildl.: a) das Gewebe, die Verbindung, Aufeinanderfolge, der Zusammenhang, calumniae, Apul.: gestorum, Amm.: brevi textu percurram, kurz, Amm.: so v. Zusammenhang der Rede, die fortlaufende Rede, Quint. 9, 4, 13. – b) das Gewebe der Rede = die Darstellung, der Inhalt, der Text, quorum res gestae plures atque clariores longiorem desiderant textum, Capit. Maxim, duo 1. § 3: peniculo serie litterarum abstersā, solā relictā subscriptione alter multum a vero illo dissonan s subscribitur textus, Amm. 15, 5, 4: priore textu interpolato, ibid. § 12: Punicorum confisus textu librorum, ibid. 22, 15, 8: ergo redeundum ad textum (zum eigentlichen Text, zum Thema), ibid. 14, 6, 26.

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at-texo, texui, textum, 3, v. a.

To weave on or to something (rare, and only in prose):

turres contabulantur, pinnae loricaeque ex cratibus attexuntur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40:

attexti capite crines,

App. M. 11, p. 260, 35.—

In gen., to add:

secundum actum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 2:

vos autem ad id, quod erit immortale, partem attexitote mortalem,

Cic. Tim. 11 fin.

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.

dē-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave off, to finish or make by weaving, to weave, plait (mostly poet.).

Lit.: inter decem [p. 563] annos unam togam, Titin. ap. Non. 406, 19; cf.:

ad detexundam telam,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 7:

vestimentum,

Dig. 32, 1, 70, § 11.—

Comic.: pallium (qs. to take it from the loom),

to steal, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 138:

aliquid viminibus mollique junco,

Verg. E. 2, 72; cf.:

fiscellam vimine junci,

Tib. 2, 3, 15.—

Trop., to explain, describe, complete, finish:

(lacteus) non perpetuum detexens conficit orbem,

Cic. Arat. 250: te ab summo jam detexam exordio, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 27, 42; cf.:

ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158:

at modo coeptum detexatur opus,

Aus. Edyll. 10, 411.

inter-texo, texŭi, textum, 3, v. a.

Lit., to intertwine, interweave, intersperse:

flores hederis intertexti,

Ov. M. 6, 128:

vestis intertexta notis,

Quint. 8, 5, 28:

chlamys auro intertexta,

Verg. A. 8, 167.—

Transf., to interweave, combine, construct (post-class.):

fabricator mundanae animae Deus partes ejus ex pari et impari intertexuit,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 2.

in-texo, texŭi, textum, 3, v. a., to weave into, to inweave, interweave; to plait, join together, interlace, surround, cover.

Lit.:

purpureasque notas filis intexuit albis,

Ov. M. 6, 577:

diversos colores picturae,

Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196:

hastas foliis,

Verg. E. 5, 31:

vitibus ulmos,

id. G. 2, 221:

vestibus intexto Phrygiis spectabilis auro,

Ov. M. 6, 166; cf. Curt. 9, 7, 12:

cum chlamyde purpurea variis coloribus intexta,

embroidered, Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60:

intextus puer regius,

Verg. A. 5, 252; id. G. 3, 25:

hederae intexere truncos,

Ov. M. 4, 365.—

Esp., to weave, make by weaving or interlacing:

tribus intextum tauris opus,

of hides, Verg. A. 10, 785:

sterili junco cannaque intexta palustri,

Luc. 5, 517:

ex lino,

Plin. 10, 33, 50, § 96; cf.:

latera intextus stellatis axibus agger,

Sil. 13, 109.—

Trop.: facta chartis, to interweave on paper, i. e. to describe, Tib. 4, 1, 5:

parva magnis, laeta tristibus,

Cic. Part. 4, 12:

aliquid in causa prudenter,

id. de Or. 2, 16, 68:

Varronem,

id. Att. 13, 12, 3: tali te vellem ritu inter soles... naturae rerum magnis intexere chartis, to interweave in a poem on nature your fame, etc., Verg. Cir. 39.

ob-texo, xŭi, 3, v. a. (post-Aug.).

To weave to or over any thing:

papilio fila araneosa alarum lanugine obtexit,

Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 65.—

To weave over, i. e. to overspread, cover with any thing:

caelum obtexitur umbrā,

Verg. A. 11, 611:

per nubes caelum aliud obtexens,

Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104:

jaculis obtexitur aër,

Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 258.— Transf.:

excusationes obtexere avaritiae suae,

Ambros. in Luc. 8, § 78:

sol nubibus obtexitur,

id. Ep. 5, 4.

per-texo, xui, xtum, 3, v. a.

Lit.

To weave throughout, weave entirely:

palla bysso tenui pertexta, i. e. byssina,

App. M. 11, p. 258, 21.—

To interweave, i. e. to furnish, decorate, adorn with any thing:

Odeum, quod Pericles navium malis et antennis pertexuit,

Vitr. 5, 9 init. dub. (al. pertexit).—

Trop., to go through with, perform, accomplish:

inceptum dictis,

Lucr. 6, 42:

locum,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 3:

pertexe modo quod exorsus es,

id. de Or. 2, 33, 145.

prae-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave before or in front, to fringe, edge, border.

Lit. (mostly poet.):

purpura saepe tuos fulgens praetexit amictus,

Ov. P. 3, 8, 7:

glaucas comis praetexere frondes,

weave around, Val. Fl. 3, 436; Plin. 16, 1, 1, § 4:

praetexit arundine ripas Mincius,

Verg. E. 7, 12:

litora curvae Praetexunt puppes,

id. A. 6, 5:

fontem violis, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 249: limina ramis, Rapt. Pros. 2, 320: ripam ulvis,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 45:

sicubi odoratas praetexit amaracus umbras,

spreads over, Col. 10, 297.—In mid. force:

utraeque nationes Rheno praetexuntur,

border on the Rhine, Tac. G. 34.—

Transf.

To place before or in front (syn.:

praetendo, praepono): in his voluminibus auctorum nomina praetexui, Plin. praef. § 21: auctores quos praetexuimus volumini huic,

id. 18, 25, 57, § 212:

tibi maximus honor excubare pro templis, postibusque praetexi,

i. e. that your statues stand before the temples, Plin. Pan. 52.—

To border, to furnish, provide, or adorn with any thing: ex primo versu cujusque sententiae primis litteris illius sententiae carmen omne praetexitur, the whole poem is bordered (like an acrostic) with the initial letters from the first verse of every sentence (oracle), Cic. Div. 2, 54, 112: omnia quae aguntur acerrime, lenioribus principiis natura praetexuit, has provided with, etc., id. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

praetexta quercu domus,

Ov. F. 4, 953; 5, 567:

summaque praetexat tenuis fastigia chartae, Indicet ut nomen, littera facta, meum,

let my name be inscribed upon it, Tib. 3, 1, 11.—

Trop.

To allege as an excuse, to pretend, to assign as a pretext (syn. causor):

cupiditatem triumphi,

Cic. Pis. 24, 56:

nomina speciosa,

Tac. H. 1, 72.—With acc. and inf.:

ubicumque ipsi essent, praetexentes esse rempublicam,

Vell. 2, 62, 3:

Tigellinus T. Vinii potentia defensus, praetexentis, servatam ab eo filiam,

Tac. H. 1, 72.—

To cover, cloak, conceal, disguise with any thing:

hoc praetexit nomine culpam,

Verg. A. 4, 172:

funera sacris,

id. ib. 4, 500:

fraudem blando risu,

Claud. Ruf. 1, 99.—Hence, praetextus, a, um, P. a., clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta:

praetextus senatus (for praetextā in dutus),

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 11:

pubes,

Aus. Prof. 18, 7.—

In partic.

Toga praetexta, and (post-Aug.) absol.: praetexta, ae, f., the outer garment, bordered with purple, worn at Rome by the higher magistrates and by free-born children till they assumed the toga virilis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36; 2, 1, 44, § 113; id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2; Liv. 27, 37; 33, 42; Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 136; 33, 1, 4, § 10 et saep.: praetextā pullā nulli alii licebat uti, quam ei, qui funus faciebat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 236 Müll.—Hence,

praetexta, ae, f. (sc. fabula), a tragedy, because celebrated Romans (like Brutus, Decius, Marcellus) were represented in it:

nostri vestigia Graeca Ausi deserere, et celebrare domestica facta, Vel qui praetextas vel qui docuere togatas,

Hor. A. P. 286; Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

praetextam legere,

id. ib. 10, 32, 5.—

praetextum, i, n.

An ornament, as something wrought or fastened in front (post - Aug.):

pulcherrimum reipublicae praetextum,

Sen. Ep. 71, 9.—

A pretence, [p. 1436] pretext, excuse (post-Aug.; cf.:

species, simulatio): et praetextum quidem illi civilium armorum hoc fuit: causas autem alias fuisse opinantur,

Suet. Caes. 30: ad praetextum mutatae voluntatis, under pretext or color of, id. Aug. 12:

ipse Ravennam devertit praetexto classem alloquendi,

under pretext, Tac. H. 2, 100:

praetexto reipublicae,

id. ib. 3, 80; Sen. Contr. 4, 25, 14.

rĕ-texo, xui (retexi, Manil. 4, 214 dub.), xtum, 3, v. a.

To unweave, unravel what has been woven (class.).

Lit.:

quasi Penelope telam retexens,

Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95:

tela retexta dolo,

Ov. Am. 3, 9, 30:

telas,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 9.—

Poet., transf., [p. 1586] of other things:

nec (corpora possunt) retexi,

be decomposed, Lucr. 1, 529; so,

umorem maris (sol),

id. 5, 267: luna quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem, i. e. lessened or diminished again, Ov. M. 7, 531.—

Trop., to break up, cancel, annul, reverse (cf.:

resolvo, rescindo): multa quaerendo reperiunt non modo ea, quae jam non possint ipsi dissolvere, sed etiam quibus ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158:

superiora (novi timores),

id. Fam. 11, 14, 3:

istius praeturam (opp. suam gerere),

id. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

illa (dicta),

to take back, id. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

orationem meam,

to alter, change, id. Phil. 2, 13, 32:

scriptorum quaeque,

to revise, correct, Hor. S. 2, 3, 2:

opus,

Ov. P. 1, 3, 30; id. R. Am. 12:

retegens caelum terque ora retexens,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 29:

jura,

Manil. 4, 214:

calumniae textum,

App. Mag. p. 313, 38: an, quod adulescens praestiti, id nunc commutem ac me ipse retexam? and fashion myself anew, metamorphose myself, Masius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 5.—

To weave again or anew; to renew, repeat ( poet.; not anteAug.). — Trop.:

properata retexite fata,

i. e. call back to life, Ov. M. 10, 31:

inde retro redeunt, idemque retexitur ordo,

id. ib. 15, 249; cf. Verg. A. 12, 763.—

To repeat, relate again, narrate:

oro, mater, ordine mihi singula retexe,

App. M. 9, p. 224, 30; so,

orationem,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 6; Claud. B. Gild. 325; Aus. Idyll. 10, 298.

subtēmen ( subtegmen), ĭnis, n. [contr. from subteximen, subtecmen, from sub-texo], that which is wrought or woven in, the woof, weft of a web:

inseritur medium radiis subtemen acutis, etc.,

Ov. M. 6, 56; Varr. L. L. 5, § 113 Müll.; Verg. A. 3, 483; Vitr. 10, 1 med.; Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81; [p. 1784] 13, 12, 24, § 79.—

Meton. (pars pro toto), any thing spun, thread, yarn (rare, and mostly poet.):

subtemen tenue nere,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 20:

nere,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 52; Front. Nep. Am. 2 med.:

Tyrium,

Tib. 4, 1, 121; Stat. Th. 7, 656:

picto bracae,

Val. Fl. 6, 227:

croceo vestes,

id. 8, 234.—Of the threads of the Fates:

unde tibi reditum certo subtemine Parcae Rupere,

Hor. Epod. 13, 15:

ducere subtemina,

Cat. 64, 328:

rubrum,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 260:

auratum,

Nemes. Cyg. 91.