incingo

incingo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [in-cingo, to enclose with a girdle; hence], to gird, gird about, surround (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; not used by Cic. in prose; esp. freq. in the part. perf. ):

(aras) verbenis silvaque incinxit agresti,

Ov. M. 7, 242:

urbes turritis moenibus,

id. Am. 3, 8, 47:

incingi zonā,

id. H. 9, 66:

Arcadiam Peloponnesiacae gentes undique incingunt,

Mel. 2, 3:

pars sese tortis serpentibus incingebant,

Cat. 64, 259.—

Mid.: (Tisiphone) Induitur pallam tortoque incingitur angue,

Ov. M. 4, 483:

nitidaque incingere lauro,

i. e. crown thyself, id. ib. 14, 720.— In part. perf.:

incinctus cinctu Gabino,

Liv. 8, 9, 9:

Gabino cultu,

id. 10, 7, 3: (Furiae) caerulea incinctae angui incedunt, Poët. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89:

ambae (Nymphae) auro, pictis incinctae pellibus ambae,

girded, Verg. G. 4, 342; id. A. 7, 396; cf.

Lares,

Ov. F. 2, 634:

incinctus tunicas mercator,

id. ib. 5, 675; cf. id. M. 13, 894:

(fons) margine gramineo patulos incinctus hiatus,

enclosed, id. ib. 3, 162.