innecto

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.

I.

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.—

II.

Trop.

A.

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.—

B.

In partic.

1.

To entangle, implicate:

innexus conscientiae alicujus,

Tac. A. 3, 10.—

2.

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.