I.to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).
I. Prop.: “omne colligatum solvi potest,” Cic. Univ. 11, 35: “corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,” id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16: “manus,” id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner's hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33: “pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,” fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: “solum herbis colligatum,” thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5: “bitumen vulnera colligat,” Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.): “homines inter se sermonis vinclo,” Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3: “officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,” id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.: “(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,” id. N. D. 1, 4, 9: “sententias verbis,” to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168: “annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,” to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—
B. With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder: “impetum furentis (Antonii),” Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4: “Brutum in Graeciā,” i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26: “se cum multis,” id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē , adv., connectedly, jointly: “colligatius adhaerere alicui,” Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28.
