subtexo

sub-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave under or below any thing; hence, to join on, fasten, affix (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).

I.

Lit. (very rare):

lunam alutae,

Juv. 7, 192.— Poet.:

patrio capiti nubes, i. e. soli,

to draw before, veil, Ov. M. 14, 368; cf.:

nox subtexta polo,

Luc. 4, 104:

sol diem subtexit Olympo,

spreads around Olympus, Val. Fl. 5, 414.— To cover, hide, darken, obscure, conceal, with acc. of thing concealed:

subtexunt nubila caelum,

Lucr. 5, 466:

caerula nimbis,

id. 6, 482:

caelum fumo,

Verg. A. 3, 582:

diem atrā nube,

Sen. Phoen. 422:

aethera ferro,

Luc. 7, 519. —

II.

Trop.

A.

To add, annex, append, subjoin, Nep. Att. 18, 2:

subtexit fabulae huic, legatos interrogatos esse, etc.,

Liv. 37, 48; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 13:

non ab re fuerit subtexere, quae... evenerint,

Suet. Aug. 94 init.; Vell. 1, 14, 1:

curam officiis,

Col. 11, 1, 2.—

B.

In gen., to put together, compose, prepare, contrive, etc.:

carmina,

Tib. 4, 1, 211:

originem familiarum,

Nep. Att. 18, 2:

impedimenta Romanis,

Amm. 16, 20. —

C.

To mix:

subtexta malis bona sunt,

Manil. 3, 526.