intexo

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

I.

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.—

B.

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.—

II.

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.