I.to chain or bind together (prob. not ante-Aug.), Col. 6, 19, 2 Schneid. N. cr.; Ven. Carm. 2, 14; cf.: cateno, πεδέω, Gloss. Vet.—More freq. in part. perf.: cătēnātus , a, um, bound with a chain, chained, fettered: Britannus, *Hor. Epod. 7, 8: “janitor,” Ov. Am. 1, 6, 1; Col. 1, praef. § 10; Quint. 8, 3, 69; Suet. Aug. 13; id. Tib. 64 al.: “equorum linguae,” Stat. Th. 4, 731.—Poet.: “palaestrae (on account of their twining their limbs around one another),” intertwined, Stat. S. 2, 1.—
b. Trop.: “versus ex pluribus syllabis catenatos,” connected, Quint. 1, 1, 37: “labores,” continued, unremitting, Mart. 1, 16.
