I.a joining together, a connection, joint, structure (freq. and class.).
I. Prop., Lucr. 6, 1070; Ov. M. 3, 30; Luc. 2, 487; 3, 491; Curt. 4, 3, 6; 4, 4, 12; Plin. 25, 3, 6, § 20; Suet. Aug. 43 et saep.—Gen. plur. compagum, Plin. 2, 2, 2, § 5 Sillig.—
II. Trop.: “in Veneris compagibus haerent,” i. e. in the embraces, Lucr. 4, 1109; 4, 1201: dum sumus in his inclusi compagibus corporis, bodily structures, * Cic. Sen. 21, 77; cf. Vell. 2, 127, 3; Luc. 5, 119.—So of the body of the state, Tac. H. 4, 74 fin.