I.to gird below or from below, to tuck up, gird, gird about, girdle (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. subligo).
I. Lit.: “crure tenus medio tunicas,” Juv. 6, 455: “astricti succingant ilia ventres,” Grat. Cyn. 271; cf.: “Virginem et Leonem Anguis intortus succingit,” Vitr. 9, 5 (7), 1: “illa (Scylla) feris atram canibus succingitur alvum,” Ov. M. 13, 732; cf. Lucr. 5, 892; Tib. 3, 4, 89: “eāpse sic succincta,” tucked up, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 80: “amicus,” Mart. 2, 46, 7: “popa,” Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62. “cursor,” Mart. 12, 24, 7: “anus,” Ov. M. 8, 661: “Diana,” id. ib. 3, 156; cf.: “vestem ritu succincta Dianae,” id. ib. 10, 536; 9, 89.— Poet.: “succincta comas pinus,” with its bare trunk, Ov. M. 10, 103; 15, 603: quis illaec est, quae lugubri Succincta est stolā, girt about, Enn. ap. Non. 198, 2 (Trag. v. 134 Vahl.): succincti gladiis mediā regione cracentes, girt about, armed, id. ap. Fest. s. v. cracentes, p. 53 (Ann. v. 497 ib.): “gladio succinctus,” Auct. Her. 4, 52, 65: “succinctam pharetrā,” Verg. A. 1, 323: “pallā succincta cruenta,” id. ib. 6, 555; cf. “amictu,” id. ib. 12,401: succincti corda machaeris, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 678 (Ann. v. 392 ib.): pugione succinctus, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 16, 33: “cultro succinctus,” Liv. 7, 5, 3: “ferro,” id. 40, 9, 12; 40, 7, 7.—
II. Transf., to surround, furnish, provide, equip, fit out with any thing (syn.: “saepio, circumdo): quod multo se pluribus et majoribus canibus succinxerat,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146: “frustra se terrore succinxerit,” Plin. Pan. 49, 3: “his animum succinge bonis,” Petr. 5 fin.: “succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris,” Verg. E. 6, 75: “Scylla rapax canibus succincta Molossis,” id. Cul. 330: “virgineam canibus succincta figuram,” Tib. 3, 4, 89: “Carthago succincta portubus,” Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87: “succinctus armis legionibusque,” Liv. 21, 10, 4: “maximarum gentium viribus,” Just. 6, 1, 2: “totius ferme Orientis viribus,” id. 35, 1, 9: “horum scientiā debet esse succinctus,” Quint. 12, 5, 1: “patriā papyro,” Juv. 4, 24.—Hence, succinctus , a, um, P. a. (very rare and post-Aug.).
B. Contracted, short, concise, succinct (poet. and post-Aug.; cf.: “brevis, circumscriptus): libelli,” Mart. 2, 1, 3: “arbores succinctiores,” Plin. 16, 10, 17, § 39: “succinctior brevitas,” Aug. Ep. 157 med.—Adv.: suc-cinctē , briefly, concisely, succinctly (late Lat.; cf.: “breviter, strictim): docere,” Amm. 28, 1, 2.—Comp.: “fari,” Sid. Ep. 1, 9: “dimicare,” Amm. 20, 11, 20.