revincio

rĕ-vincĭo, vinxi, vinctum, 4, v. a.

I.

To bind back or backwards; to bind around, bind fast, fasten (class.; not in Cic.).

A.

Lit.:

nisi esset (terra) caelo revincta,

Lucr. 5, 553:

ancorae pro funibus ferreis catenis revinctae,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

tignis in contrariam partem revinctis,

id. ib. 4, 17; cf.:

trabes introrsus,

id. ib. 7, 23:

stipites demissi et ab infimo revincti,

id. ib. 7, 73:

navigium (with religare),

Plin. Pan. 82, 2:

aliquem ad saxa,

to bind fast, Ov. M. 11, 212; cf.:

zonam de poste,

id. ib. 10, 379:

errantem Mycono e celsā Gyaroque revinxit,

Verg. A. 3, 76: caput tortā angue, bound around, Varr. Atacin. ap. Charis. p. 70 P.; cf.:

latus ense,

to gird, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 11:

templum Velleribus niveis et festā fronde revinctum,

Verg. A. 4, 459.—

In a Greek construction: ecce manūs juvenem interea post terga revinctum trahebant,

with his hands tied behind him, Verg. A. 2, 57:

qui recitat lanā fauces et colla revinctus,

wrapped up, Mart. 6, 41, 1.— Poet.:

latices in glaciem revincti,

bound, stiffened, Claud. in Rufin. 1, 167.—

B.

Trop., to bind, fasten, etc.:

mentem amore,

Cat. 61, 33:

urbes legibus,

Claud. B. Gild. 47:

te sibi generum fraternā prole, id. Nupt. Honor. et Mar. 36: miserā in peste revinctos confodiunt,

Val. Fl. 6, 418; 4, 708.—

* II.

To unbind, loose:

quempiam (opp. alligare, and = resolvere),

Col. 1, 8, 16.