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rĕdĭmĭo , ĭi, ītum, 4 (
I.imperf. redimibat, Verg. A. 10, 538; Aus. Epigr. 94), v. a. etym. dub., to bind round, wreathe round, encircle, gird, crown, etc. (mostly poet.; syn.: cingo, circumdo).
(α). In the verb finit.: “caput atque umeros plexis redimire coronis,Lucr. 5, 1399: “cui tempora vittā,Verg. A. 10, 538: “mitrā capillos,Ov. H. 9, 63: “crinem corymbis,Stat. S. 1, 5, 16: “chelyn,id. ib. 4, 8, 38: “frontem coronā,Mart. 8, 70, 5 al.: “sertis redimiri jubebis et rosā?Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: “lauro tabellas,Ov. Am. 1, 11, 25; cf.: “fastigium aedis tintinnabulis,Suet. Aug. 91: hortum floribus, Col. poët. 10, 286. —Poet.: “nec sic innumeros arcu mutante colores Incipiens redimitur hiems,is girt round, environed, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 99.—
(β). In part. perf.: “sertis redimiti,Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; cf.: “redimitus coronis,id. Rep. 4, 5, 10: “anguineo redimita capillo Frons,Cat. 64, 193: “frons corymbis,Tib. 1, 7, 45: “frons regium in morem,Flor. 3, 19, 10; Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21; cf.: “domus floridis corollis,Cat. 63, 66: “navigia variarum coronarum genere,Suet. Vit. 10; Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87; v. Sillig ad h. l.: loca silvis, girt round, surrounded, Cat. 63, 3; cf.: “Naxos Aegaeo ponto,Sen. Oedip. 487.— Absol.: “missile,the wreathed thyrsus, Stat. Achill. 1, 612: “cervix,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 246.— In a poet. construction: “redimitus tempora lauro, quercu, mitrā, etc.,Tib. 3, 4, 23; Verg. G. 1, 349; Ov. M. 14, 654; 9, 3; id. F. 3, 269; 669; 4, 661; cf.: “caput harundine redimitus,Vell. 2, 83, 2 al.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 2.5.10
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.654
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.538
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.349
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 91
    • Suetonius, Vitellius, 10
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1399
    • Seneca, Oedipus, 487
    • Cicero, De Republica, 4.5
    • Cicero, De Republica, 6.20
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.18
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.5
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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