I.to tie, join, bind, attach, connect, or fasten to, together, or about.
I. Lit.: “paribus palmas amborum innexuit armis,” Verg. A. 5, 425: “colla auro,” id. ib. 8, 661: “tempora sertis,” to deck, garland, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 3: “fauces laqueo,” to encircle, id. M. 10, 378: “colla lacertis,” id. ib. 11, 240: “bracchia collo,” Stat. Th. 4, 26: “ambos innectens manibus,” id. ib. 1, 511: “mancipia compedibus,” Col. 11, 1, 22: innecti cervicibus, to fasten upon, cling to, or embrace the neck, Tac. H. 4, 46; cf.: “tunc placuit caesis innectere vincula silvis,” Luc. 2, 670; v. Orelli ad Hor. Epod. 17, 72.— With acc.: “nodos et vincula rupit, Queis innexa pedem malo pendebat ab alto,” Verg. A. 5, 511: “vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis,” id. ib. 6, 281.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive: “causas innecte morandi,” Verg. A. 4, 51: “moras,” Stat. Th. 5, 743: “fraudem clienti,” Verg. A. 6, 609.—
B. In partic.
1. To entangle, implicate: “innexus conscientiae alicujus,” Tac. A. 3, 10.—
2. To join, connect: “Hyrcanis per affinitatem innexus erat,” Tac. A. 6, 36: “motus animi innexi implicatique vigoribus quibusdam mentium,” Gell. 19, 2, 3: “mentem, i. e. veneficio illigare,” Sen. Hipp. 416.
