texo

texo, xui, xtum ( inf. paragog. texier, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 69), 3, v. a. [root tek-; Gr. etekon, tiktô, to beget; Sanscr. takman, child; taksh, to make], to weave (class.; syn. neo).

I.

Lit.:

texens telam,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 44:

vestes,

Tib. 2, 3, 54:

tegumenta corporum vel texta vel suta,

Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150:

in araneolis aliae quasi rete texunt,

id. ib. 2, 48, 123:

tenuem texens sublimis aranea telam,

Cat. 68, 49:

in vacuo texetur aranea lecto,

Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 33:

chlamydem,

Val. Fl. 2, 499.— Absol., Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 79.—

B.

Transf., in gen., to join or fit together any thing; to plait, braid, interweave, interlace, intertwine; to construct, make, fabricate, build, etc. (mostly poet. ):

rubeā texatur fiscina virgā,

Verg. G. 1, 266:

molle feretrum texunt virgis et vimine querno,

id. A. 11, 65:

parietem lento vimine,

Ov. F. 6, 262; and:

domum vimine querno,

Stat. Th. 1, 583. saepes, Verg. G. 2, 371:

crates,

Hor. Epod. 2, 45:

rosam,

Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 36; cf.:

coronam rosis,

Mart. 13, 51, 1:

varios flores,

Ov. M. 10, 123:

tegetes,

Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 112:

harundinibus textae casae,

id. 30, 10, 27, § 89:

navigia ex papyro,

id. 13, 11, 22, § 72:

nidos,

Quint. 2, 16, 16:

basilicam,

Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14:

robore naves,

Verg. A. 11, 326:

harundine texta hibernacula,

Liv. 30, 3, 9: pyram pinu aridā, Prud. steph. 10, 846:

Labyrinthus Parietibus textum caecis iter,

Verg. A. 5, 589. —

II.

Trop., to weave, compose:

quamquam ea tela texitur et ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi, ut, etc.,

is devised, contrived, Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 226; cf.:

amor patriae Quod tua texuerunt scripta retexit opus,

i. e. had wrought, produced, Ov. P. 1, 3, 30:

quamquam sermones possunt longi texier,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 68:

epistulas cottidianis verbis,

Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1; cf.:

opus luculente,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 1.—Hence, textum, i, n., that which is woven, a web ( poet. and in postAug. prose).

A.

Lit.:

pretiosa texta,

Ov. H. 17, 223:

illita texta veneno,

id. ib. 9, 163:

rude,

id. M. 8, 640; Mart. 8, 28, 18:

pepli,

Stat. Th. 10, 56.—

2.

Transf., that which is plaited, braided, or fitted together, a plait, texture, fabric:

pinea carinae,

Cat. 64, 10; Ov. M. 11, 524; 14, 531; id. F. 1, 506:

non enarrabile clipei,

Verg. A. 8, 625:

ferrea,

Lucr. 6, 1052; cf.

talia,

id. 5, 95:

Lolliam vidi, zmaragdis margaritisque opertam, alterno texto fulgentibus toto capite,

in alternate structures, layers, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 117. —

* B.

Trop., of literary composition, tissue, texture, style:

dicendi textum tenue,

Quint. 9, 4, 17.