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lĭgo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Gr. root λυγin λύγος, λυγόω,
I.to tie, bind, bind together, bind up, bandage, bind fast, etc. (syn.: vincio, destino; perh. only poet. and post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit.: “manus post terga ligatae,Ov. M. 3, 575: “ligare et vincire crura et manus,Gell. 12, 3, 1: “crus fasciā,Phaedr. 5, 7, 36: “laqueo guttura,to tie up, Ov. M. 6, 134: “vulnera veste,to bind up, bandage, id. ib. 7, 849: “dum mula ligatur,is harnessed, Hor. S. 1, 5, 13: “funem litoribus,Luc. 8, 61: “sudarium circum collum,to bind around, Suet. Ner. 51: “pisces in glacie ligatos,” i. e. frozen fast, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 49: “nimbi ligati,” i. e. ice, Petr. 123.—
B. Transf., to wind round, to surround: “balteus loricam ligat,Val. Fl. 4, 94: “digitosque ligat junctura,Ov. M. 2, 375; Sil. 7, 589.—
II. Trop., to bind up, bind together, unite: “dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit,Ov. M. 1, 25: “vinclo propiore cum aliquo ligari,id. ib. 9, 548: “laqueo colla,id. P. 1, 6, 39.—
B. To ratify, confirm: “pacta,Prop. 4 (5), 4, 82.conjugia artibus magicis,Sen. Herc. Oet. 452: argumenta in catenas, * Quint. 5, 14, 32.—Hence, P. a.: lĭgātus , a, um, connected with, adjoining: “Tartari ripis ligatos squalidae mortis specus,Sen. Med. 742.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.25
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.375
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.575
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.548
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.13
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.134
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.849
    • Suetonius, Nero, 51
    • Lucan, Civil War, 8.61
    • Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 452
    • Seneca, Medea, 742
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 4.94
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 14.32
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 12.3.1
    • Ovid, Tristia, 5.10
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.6
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