to+tie+up

mărīto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [1. maritus], to give a husband to one; hence to wed, marry, give in marriage to a man.

Lit. (post-Aug. and rare):

Vitellii filiam,

Suet. Vesp. 14:

lex (Augusti) de maritandis ordinibus,

i. e. imposing fines for celibacy in all classes, id. Aug. 34:

lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus,

Gai. Inst. 1, 178; Ulp. Fragm. 11, 20;

pleonastically: matrimonia,

i. e. to conclude, make, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 26.—Hence, absol., to marry, take a wife:

maritandum principem suaderent,

Tac. A. 12, 6.—

Transf.

Of animals and plants.

Pass.: maritari, to be coupled, i. e. to have a mate:

tunc dicuntur catulire, id est ostendere, se velle maritari,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 11.—

To impregnate:

(Zephyrus) glebas fecundo rore maritat,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 89; so in pass., to be impregnated:

quae (feminae) ternae singulis (maribus) maritantur,

Col. 8, 2, 12; Plin. 16, 25, 39, § 93; Sol. 23.—

Of plants, to wed, i. e. to tie or fasten to another tree:

adultā vitium propagine Altas maritat populos,

Hor. Epod. 2, 10:

ulmi vitibus maritantur,

Col. 11, 2, 79; 4, 2, 1:

maritandae arbores,

id. 4, 1, 6; cf. id. 5, 6, 18.—Hence, mărītātus, a, um, P. a., of or pertaining to a wife.—Comic.: A. Pulchra dos pecunia est. P. Quae quidem non maritata est, yes, if not accompanied with a wife, Plaut. Ep. 2, 1, 12.— Subst.: mărītāta, ae, f., a wife, a married woman, Lact. 1, 11, 9.— Plur., opp. virgines, viduae, Hier. Ep. 77, n. 12.

mărītus, a, um, adj. [mas], of or belonging to marriage, matrimonial, conjugal, nuptial, marriage-.

Adj. (so mostly poet.; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

facibus cessit maritis,

to the nuptial torches, to wedlock, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 33:

faces,

Ov. H. 11, 101:

foedus,

the conjugal tie, id. P. 3, 1, 73:

tori,

id. H. 2, 41:

sacra,

Prop. 3, 20, 26 (4, 20, 16); Ov. H. 12, 87:

Venus,

wedded love, id. ib. 16, 283; cf.:

fides,

conjugal fidelity, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 11: lex, respecting marriage, a marriage-law (de maritandis ordinibus, Suet. Aug. 34), Hor. C. S. 20.—In prose:

vagabatur per maritas domos dies noctesque,

i. e. the houses of married people, Liv. 27, 31, 5 Drak.—

Transf.

Of plants, wedded, i. e. tied up (cf. marito, II. B.):

arbores,

Cato, R. R. 32, 2; Col. 11, 2, 32:

ulmo conjuncta marito (sc. vitis),

Cat. 62, 54; Quint. 8, 3, 8:

olivetum,

Col. 3, 11, 3.—

Impregnating, fertilizing (in postclass. poetry):

fluctus (Nili),

Avien. Perieg. 339: imbres, Pervigil. Ven. 4, 11.—

Subst.

mărītus, i, m., a married man, husband (freq. and class.; cf.

conjux, vir): ditis damnosos maritos sub basilica quaerito,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 10:

ut maritus sis quam optimae (mulieris),

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

sororis,

id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; Liv. 1, 57, 10; Quint. 6, 2, 14; 3, 11, 4; Suet. Caes. 43; 52; 81; Tac. A. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1; 2, 20, 2; Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 1; Just. 1, 7, 19; Val Max. 8, 2, 14; Gell. 1, 17 et saep.: insidian [p. 1115] iem somno maritorum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

quae major calumnia est quam venire imberbum adulescentem, bene valentem ac maritum,

id. Dom. 14, 37; Liv. 36, 17, 8;

opp. coelebs: seu maritum sive coelibem scortarier,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 14, 58; id. Cas. 2, 4, 11 sq.; Quint. 5, 10, 26; Sen. Ep. 94, 8; Gell. 2, 15:

bonus optandusque maritus,

Juv. 6, 211:

malus ingratusque maritus,

id. 7, 169:

mariti testamentum,

Quint. 9, 2, 73:

patrius,

Verg. A. 3, 297:

Phrygio servire marito,

id. ib. 4, 103:

unico gaudens mulier marito,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 5:

novus,

a newly-married man, a young husband, Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 6:

intra quartum et vicesimum annum maritus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 3:

recens,

id. ib. 8, 23, 8:

ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito,

Tib. 3, 4, 31:

lex Bithynorum, si quid mulier contrahat, maritum auctorem esse jubet,

Gai. Inst. 1, 193:

si maritus pro muliere se obligaverit,

Ulp. Fragm. 11, 3:

maritus lugendus decem mensibus,

Plaut. Sent. 1, 21, 13.—

Transf.

A lover, suitor ( poet.), Prop. 2, 21 (3, 14), 10:

aegram (Dido) nulli quondam flexere mariti,

Verg. A. 4, 35.—

Of animals:

ol ens maritus,

i. e. a he-goat, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7:

quem pecori dixere maritum,

Verg. G. 3, 125; so,

gregum,

Col. 7, 6, 4;

of cocks,

id. 8, 5 fin.; Juv. 3, 91.—

In plur.: mă-rīti, ōrum, m., married people, man and wife (post-class.), Dig. 24, 1, 52 fin.:

novi mariti,

newly-married people, a young couple, App. M. 8, p. 201, 36.—

mărīta, ae, f., a married woman, wife ( poet. and postclass.):

marita,

Hor. Epod. 8, 13:

castae maritae,

Ov. F. 2, 139; id. H. 12, 175; Inscr. Orell. 2665; Inscr. Fabr. 299 al.; and freq. on epitaphs.

mărītus, i, v. 1. maritus, II. A.

mărīto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [1. maritus], to give a husband to one; hence to wed, marry, give in marriage to a man.

Lit. (post-Aug. and rare):

Vitellii filiam,

Suet. Vesp. 14:

lex (Augusti) de maritandis ordinibus,

i. e. imposing fines for celibacy in all classes, id. Aug. 34:

lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus,

Gai. Inst. 1, 178; Ulp. Fragm. 11, 20;

pleonastically: matrimonia,

i. e. to conclude, make, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 26.—Hence, absol., to marry, take a wife:

maritandum principem suaderent,

Tac. A. 12, 6.—

Transf.

Of animals and plants.

Pass.: maritari, to be coupled, i. e. to have a mate:

tunc dicuntur catulire, id est ostendere, se velle maritari,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 11.—

To impregnate:

(Zephyrus) glebas fecundo rore maritat,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 89; so in pass., to be impregnated:

quae (feminae) ternae singulis (maribus) maritantur,

Col. 8, 2, 12; Plin. 16, 25, 39, § 93; Sol. 23.—

Of plants, to wed, i. e. to tie or fasten to another tree:

adultā vitium propagine Altas maritat populos,

Hor. Epod. 2, 10:

ulmi vitibus maritantur,

Col. 11, 2, 79; 4, 2, 1:

maritandae arbores,

id. 4, 1, 6; cf. id. 5, 6, 18.—Hence, mărītātus, a, um, P. a., of or pertaining to a wife.—Comic.: A. Pulchra dos pecunia est. P. Quae quidem non maritata est, yes, if not accompanied with a wife, Plaut. Ep. 2, 1, 12.— Subst.: mărītāta, ae, f., a wife, a married woman, Lact. 1, 11, 9.— Plur., opp. virgines, viduae, Hier. Ep. 77, n. 12.

mărītus, a, um, adj. [mas], of or belonging to marriage, matrimonial, conjugal, nuptial, marriage-.

Adj. (so mostly poet.; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

facibus cessit maritis,

to the nuptial torches, to wedlock, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 33:

faces,

Ov. H. 11, 101:

foedus,

the conjugal tie, id. P. 3, 1, 73:

tori,

id. H. 2, 41:

sacra,

Prop. 3, 20, 26 (4, 20, 16); Ov. H. 12, 87:

Venus,

wedded love, id. ib. 16, 283; cf.:

fides,

conjugal fidelity, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 11: lex, respecting marriage, a marriage-law (de maritandis ordinibus, Suet. Aug. 34), Hor. C. S. 20.—In prose:

vagabatur per maritas domos dies noctesque,

i. e. the houses of married people, Liv. 27, 31, 5 Drak.—

Transf.

Of plants, wedded, i. e. tied up (cf. marito, II. B.):

arbores,

Cato, R. R. 32, 2; Col. 11, 2, 32:

ulmo conjuncta marito (sc. vitis),

Cat. 62, 54; Quint. 8, 3, 8:

olivetum,

Col. 3, 11, 3.—

Impregnating, fertilizing (in postclass. poetry):

fluctus (Nili),

Avien. Perieg. 339: imbres, Pervigil. Ven. 4, 11.—

Subst.

mărītus, i, m., a married man, husband (freq. and class.; cf.

conjux, vir): ditis damnosos maritos sub basilica quaerito,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 10:

ut maritus sis quam optimae (mulieris),

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

sororis,

id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; Liv. 1, 57, 10; Quint. 6, 2, 14; 3, 11, 4; Suet. Caes. 43; 52; 81; Tac. A. 1, 5; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1; 2, 20, 2; Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 1; Just. 1, 7, 19; Val Max. 8, 2, 14; Gell. 1, 17 et saep.: insidian [p. 1115] iem somno maritorum, Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

quae major calumnia est quam venire imberbum adulescentem, bene valentem ac maritum,

id. Dom. 14, 37; Liv. 36, 17, 8;

opp. coelebs: seu maritum sive coelibem scortarier,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 14, 58; id. Cas. 2, 4, 11 sq.; Quint. 5, 10, 26; Sen. Ep. 94, 8; Gell. 2, 15:

bonus optandusque maritus,

Juv. 6, 211:

malus ingratusque maritus,

id. 7, 169:

mariti testamentum,

Quint. 9, 2, 73:

patrius,

Verg. A. 3, 297:

Phrygio servire marito,

id. ib. 4, 103:

unico gaudens mulier marito,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 5:

novus,

a newly-married man, a young husband, Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 6:

intra quartum et vicesimum annum maritus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 3:

recens,

id. ib. 8, 23, 8:

ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito,

Tib. 3, 4, 31:

lex Bithynorum, si quid mulier contrahat, maritum auctorem esse jubet,

Gai. Inst. 1, 193:

si maritus pro muliere se obligaverit,

Ulp. Fragm. 11, 3:

maritus lugendus decem mensibus,

Plaut. Sent. 1, 21, 13.—

Transf.

A lover, suitor ( poet.), Prop. 2, 21 (3, 14), 10:

aegram (Dido) nulli quondam flexere mariti,

Verg. A. 4, 35.—

Of animals:

ol ens maritus,

i. e. a he-goat, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7:

quem pecori dixere maritum,

Verg. G. 3, 125; so,

gregum,

Col. 7, 6, 4;

of cocks,

id. 8, 5 fin.; Juv. 3, 91.—

In plur.: mă-rīti, ōrum, m., married people, man and wife (post-class.), Dig. 24, 1, 52 fin.:

novi mariti,

newly-married people, a young couple, App. M. 8, p. 201, 36.—

mărīta, ae, f., a married woman, wife ( poet. and postclass.):

marita,

Hor. Epod. 8, 13:

castae maritae,

Ov. F. 2, 139; id. H. 12, 175; Inscr. Orell. 2665; Inscr. Fabr. 299 al.; and freq. on epitaphs.

mărītus, i, v. 1. maritus, II. A.

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.

nōdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [nodus], to furnish or fill with knots.

Lit.:

ferula nodata,

Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123:

cornus nodata,

id. 16, 38, 73, § 186.—

Transf., to tie in a knot, to knot, Cato, R. R. 32, 2:

crines nodantur in aurum,

Verg. A. 4, 138:

collum laqueo nodatus ab arto,

Ov. R. Am. 17:

animalia phalerari sibi magis quam nodari videntur,

Ambros. in Cant. Cantic. 1, § 43.—Hence, nōdātus, a, um, P. a., knotty, i. e. entangled, intricate:

rapidus nodato gurgite vortex,

Stat. Th. 9, 276.

nōdus, i, m. [for gnodus; Sanscr. root gadh-, gandh-, grasp; cf. Gr. Chandanô, hold; gnathos, jaw; Lat. pre-hend-o; Germ. Knoten; Engl. knot], a knot (cf. nexus).

Lit.:

nodus vinculumque,

Cic. Univ. 4: necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores, Verg. E. 8, 77:

Cacum Corripit in nodum complexus,

clasping him as in a knot, id. A. 8, 260:

nodos manu diducere,

Ov. M. 2, 560:

nodus Herculis or Herculaneus,

a knot difficult to untie, of which Hercules was held to be the inventor, Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 63:

unus tibi nodus, sed Herculaneus, restat,

Sen. Ep. 87, 38:

tamquam nodus Gordius difficillimus,

Amm. 14, 11, 1: cingulum (novae nuptae) Herculaneo nodo vinctum vir solvit ominis gratia, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cingulo, p. 63 Müll.—

Transf.

A girdle ( poet.):

nodoque sinus collecta fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320; Mart. 6, 13, 5.—

Hence, astronom.: nodus anni,

the circle of the equator, Lucr. 5, 688.—

A mode of dressing the hair, a knot, club:

Rheni nodos,

the hair of the Germans gathered into a club, Mart. 5, 37, 8; cf.:

insigne gentis obliquare crinem nodoque substringere,

Tac. G. 38.—

Plur.:

nodi,

a knotted fishing-net, Manil. 5, 664.—

A knot, knob, node on a joint of an animal's body:

crura sine nodis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 27:

cervix articulorum nodis jungitur,

Plin. 11, 37, 67, § 177; 11, 37, 88, § 217:

dirae nodus hyaenae,

a backbone, dorsal vertebra, Luc. 6, 672.—

Hence, nodi articulorum,

a swelling, tumor on the joints, Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 21; 30, 12, 36, § 110.—

A knot, knob, fold, etc.

In wood or the branches of plants:

baculum sine nodo aduncum tenens,

Liv. 1, 18, 7; Sen. Ben. 7, 9:

stipes gravidus nodis,

Verg. A. 7, 507:

telum solidum nodis,

id. ib. 11, 553:

gracilitas harundinis, distincta nodis,

Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 158; Col. Arb. 3.—Hence, the knotty club of Hercules, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1661.—

Of a writhing serpent:

nixantem nodis seque in sua membra plicantem,

Verg. A. 5, 279.—

Prov.: nodum in scirpo quaerere, to look for knots in a bulrush (which contains none), i. e. to find difficulties where there are none, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 330 Müll. (Sat. v. 46 Vahl.):

in scirpo nodum quaeris,

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 22; Ter. And. 5, 4, 38.—

A knot, hard part of a thing;

so of metals,

Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 136;

of precious stones,

id. 37, 10, 55, § 150.—

A star in the constellation Pisces, Cic. Arat. 14; Caes. Germ. Arat. 243.—

In astron.:

nodi,

the four points in the heavens where the seasons begin, the nodes, Manil. 3, 618; cf. id. 2, 430.—

Trop.

In gen., a band, bond:

his igitur singulis versibus quasi nodi apparent continuationis,

Cic. Or. 66, 222:

velut laxioribus nodis resolvemus,

Quint. 9, 4, 127:

amabilissimum nodum amicitiae tollere,

Cic. Lael. 14, 51.—

In partic.

A bond, obligation ( poet.):

exsolvere animum nodis religionum,

Lucr. 4, 7:

imponere nodos, i. e. jusjurandum,

Ov. H. 20, 39 Ruhnk.—

A knotty point, difficulty, impediment.— Absol.:

dum hic nodus expediatur non putet senatus nos oportere decedere,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3: incideramus in difficilem nodum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 1.—With gen.:

Abantem interimit, pugnae nodumque moramque,

Verg. A. 10, 428:

cum scopulus et nodus et mora publicae securitatis superesset Antonius,

Flor. 4, 9, 1:

qui juris nodos et legum aenigmata solvat (an allusion to the Gordian knot),

Juv. 8, 50 (hence, Cicuta nodosus; v. nodosus).— Esp.: nodus linguae, the bond or tie of the tongue:

nodum linguae rumpere,

Gell. 5, 9, 2:

nodos linguae solvere,

Just. 13, 7, 6.