I.v. a., to weave off, to finish or make by weaving, to weave, plait (mostly poet.).
I. Lit.: inter decem annos unam togam, Titin. ap. Non. 406, 19; cf.: “ad detexundam telam,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 7: “vestimentum,” Dig. 32, 1, 70, § 11.— “Comic.: pallium (qs. to take it from the loom),” to steal, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 138: “aliquid viminibus mollique junco,” Verg. E. 2, 72; cf.: “fiscellam vimine junci,” Tib. 2, 3, 15.—
II. Trop., to explain, describe, complete, finish: “(lacteus) non perpetuum detexens conficit orbem,” Cic. Arat. 250: te ab summo jam detexam exordio, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 27, 42; cf.: “ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,” Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158: “at modo coeptum detexatur opus,” Aus. Edyll. 10, 411.
