I.to weave into, to inweave, interweave; to plait, join together, interlace, surround, cover.
I. Lit.: “purpureasque notas filis intexuit albis,” Ov. M. 6, 577: “diversos colores picturae,” Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196: “hastas foliis,” Verg. E. 5, 31: “vitibus ulmos,” id. G. 2, 221: “vestibus intexto Phrygiis spectabilis auro,” Ov. M. 6, 166; cf. Curt. 9, 7, 12: “cum chlamyde purpurea variis coloribus intexta,” embroidered, Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60: “intextus puer regius,” Verg. A. 5, 252; id. G. 3, 25: “hederae intexere truncos,” Ov. M. 4, 365.—
B. Esp., to weave, make by weaving or interlacing: “tribus intextum tauris opus,” of hides, Verg. A. 10, 785: “sterili junco cannaque intexta palustri,” Luc. 5, 517: “ex lino,” Plin. 10, 33, 50, § 96; cf.: “latera intextus stellatis axibus agger,” Sil. 13, 109.—
II. Trop.: facta chartis, to interweave on paper, i. e. to describe, Tib. 4, 1, 5: “parva magnis, laeta tristibus,” Cic. Part. 4, 12: “aliquid in causa prudenter,” id. de Or. 2, 16, 68: “Varronem,” id. Att. 13, 12, 3: tali te vellem ritu inter soles ... naturae rerum magnis intexere chartis, to interweave in a poem on nature your fame, etc., Verg. Cir. 39.
