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com-plĭco (conp- ), āvi, ātum (postAug. ui, ĭtum; cf.: applico, explico, etc.), 1, v. a.,
I.to fold together, to fold up (rare but class.).
I. Prop.: “rudentem,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 1: “armamenta,” id. Merc. 1, 2, 83: “epistulam,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 17; id. Att. 12, 1, 2: “Diogenes se complicuit in dolio,” Sen. Ep. 90, 11: “pedibus complicitis,” App. M. 9, p. 236; cf.: “complicitus in genua,” id. ib. 1, p. 111, 3. —*
II. Trop.: “si quis voluerit animi sui complicatam notionem evolvere (the figure borrowed from the folding together of books, letters, etc.),” Cic. Off. 3, 19, 76.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 12.1.2
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.1.5
    • Plautus, Rudens, 4.3
    • Plautus, Mercator, 1.2
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.19
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 90.11
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