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LNS

innectō, innectere, innexuī, innexus

in, necto

verb (3^rd conjugation)

to tie, join, bind, attach, connect, fasten to, together, about
to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive
To entangle, implicate
To join, connect

Abbreviations

in-necto, nexui, nexum, 3 (innectier for innecti, Prud. Psych. 375), v. a., to tie, join, bind, attach, connect, or fasten to, together, or about. Lit.: paribus palmas amborum innexuit armis, Verg. A. 5, 425: colla auro, id. ib. 8, 661: tempora sertis, to deck, garland, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 3: fauces laqueo, to encircle, id. M. 10, 378: colla lacertis, id. ib. 11, 240: bracchia collo, Stat. Th. 4, 26: ambos innectens manibus, id. ib. 1, 511: mancipia compedibus, Col. 11, 1, 22: innecti cervicibus, to fasten upon, cling to, or embrace the neck, Tac. H. 4, 46; cf.: tunc placuit caesis innectere vincula silvis, Luc. 2, 670; v. Orelli ad Hor. Epod. 17, 72.

— With acc.: nodos et vincula rupit, Queis innexa pedem malo pendebat ab alto, Verg. A. 5, 511: vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis, id. ib. 6, 281.

— Trop. In gen., to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive: causas innecte morandi, Verg. A. 4, 51: moras, Stat. Th. 5, 743: fraudem clienti, Verg. A. 6, 609.

— In partic. To entangle, implicate: innexus conscientiae alicujus, Tac. A. 3, 10.

— To join, connect: Hyrcanis per affinitatem innexus erat, Tac. A. 6, 36: motus animi innexi implicatique vigoribus quibusdam mentium, Gell. 19, 2, 3: mentem, i. e. veneficio illigare, Sen. Hipp. 416.