amicio

ăm-ĭcĭo, ĭcui, or ixi, ictum, 4, v. a. ( fut. amicibor, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 6; perf. only in exs. below; inf. perf. amicisse, Front.) [jacio], to throw round, to wrap about (cf. amphiballô); exclusively of upper garments (on the contr., induere, of clothes put or drawn on; vestire, of those for the protection or ornament of the body): se amicire or pass. amiciri, to throw round, veil one's self.

I.

Lit.:

amictus epicroco, Naev. ap. Var. 7, 3, 92: palliolatim amictus,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 29:

amicibor gloriose,

id. Pers. 2, 5, 6:

pallium, quo amictus, soccos, quibus indutus esset,

Cic. de Or. 3, 32:

amictus est pallio,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 28, 14:

amictus togā purpureā,

Cic. Phil. 2, 34: qui te togā praetextā amicuit, Brut. ap. Diom. p. 364 P.:

celerius mater amixit, Varr. ib.: dum calceabat ipse sese et amiciebat,

Suet. Vesp. 21 al. — Poet.: nube umeros (Gr. acc.) amictus, Hor. C. 1, 2, 31; Verg. A. 1, 516:

amictus nube,

Vulg. Apoc. 10, 1:

lumine,

ib. Psa. 103, 2:

mulier amicta sole,

ib. ib. 12, 1; so,

(rex) amicietur terrā Aegypti, sicut amicitur pastor pallio suo,

ib. Jer. 43, 12.—

II.

Trop., of other things, to cover, clothe, wrap up:

nive amicta loca,

Cat. 63, 70:

colus amicta lanā,

id. 64, 311:

amicitur vitibus ulmus,

Ov. P. 3, 8, 13:

et piper et quidquid chartis amicitur ineptis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 270:

amicta ossa luridā pelle,

id. Epod. 17, 22:

amicti vitibus montes,

Flor. 1, 16:

partem alteram luce, alteram tenebris amicisse Jovem,

Fronto, Fer. Als. p. 188.