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sub-jungo , xi, ctum, 3 (
I.inf. pass. subjungier, Prud. ap. Symm. 2, 586), v. a., to yoke, harness (rare): “curru subjungere tigres,Verg. E. 5, 29: “(juvencos) plostro,Col. 6, 2, 8: “carpento suo equas,Plin. 11, 49, 109, § 262.—
II. Transf., in gen.
A. To join or add to, to annex, affix, subjoin. *
1. Lit.: “Aeneia puppis ... rostro Phrygios subjuncta leones,having affixed, Verg. A. 10, 157.—
2. Trop., to bring under, make subject, subordinate, subjoin (class.): “aliquid sub suom judicium,Naev. 1, 5: “tu fac utrumque uno subjungas nomine eorum,Lucr. 3, 421: “omnes artes oratori,Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218: “Aristoteles translationi haec ipsa subjungit,id. Or. 27, 94: “Calliope haec percussis subjungit carmina nervis,Ov. M. 5, 340: “quod memoriam quidam inventioni, quidam dispositioni subjunxerunt,have associated, Quint. 3, 3, 10.—Poet. and postAug., of speech, to add, subjoin: “verbo idem verbum,Quint. 9, 3, 67: “nunc quae sit narrandi ratio subjungam,id. 4, 2, 31: “subjunxit egregiam causam,Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 14: quid praeterea novi? Nihil; “alioqui subjungerem,id. ib. 3, 14, 6; 5, 7, 4; 5, 14, 3; “7, 33, 7: at ille subjunxit,Vulg. Gen. 27, 36.—
B. To bring under, subdue, subject, subjugate (class.): “urbes multas sub imperium populi Romani,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 55: “urbes sub vestrum jus,id. Agr. 2, 36, 98: “nulli fas Italo tantam subjungere gentem,Verg. A. 8, 502: “novas provincias imperio nostro,Vell. 2, 39, 3: “et mihi res, non me rebus subjungere conor,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 19.—
C. To lay under (very rare): “immortalia fundamenta rebus,Lucr. 2, 862.—
D. To put in the place of, to substitute: “exempta una littera sonitus vastioris et subjuncta levioris,Gell. 1, 25, 8.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.55
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.36.98
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.340
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.157
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.502
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 27.36
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.50
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.862
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.421
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.14
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.5.14
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 3.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 2.31
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 3.67
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.25.8
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.2.8
    • Cicero, Orator, 27.94
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