- intexo
- in-texo, texŭi, textum, 3, v. a., to weave into, to inweave, interweave; to plait, join together, interlace, surround, cover.I.Lit.:B.
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:II.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.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.