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sub -stringo , nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
I.to bind beneath; to bind, tie, or draw up (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. subligo).
I. Lit.: “crinem nodo,Tac. G. 38: “ligatas auro comas,Luc. 3, 281: “sinus,Sen. Troad. 88: “lintea malo,Sil. 1, 689: “caput equi loro,Nep. Eum. 5, 5: “carnem fasciā,Suet. Galb. 21.—
II. Transf., to bind or draw together; to draw up, contract, check: aurem, i. e. to point or prick the ear, Hor. S. 2, 5, 95: “lacrimas,Marc. Emp. 8: “bilem,Juv. 6, 433. —
B. Trop., to check, restrain, etc.: “effusa,Quint. 10, 5, 4.—Hence, substrictus , a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), drawn together, contracted; hence, small, narrow, tight, close: “ilia,Ov. M. 3, 216: “crura,id. ib. 11, 752: “testes castorum,Plin. 32, 3, 13, § 26: “tunica,Gell. 7, 12, 3.—Comp.: “venter substrictior,Col. 6, 20.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.752
    • Horace, Satires, 2.5.95
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.216
    • Suetonius, Galba, 21
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.281
    • Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes, 5.5
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 32.26
    • Seneca, Troades, 88
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 5.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 7.12.3
    • Tacitus, Germania, 38
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.20
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