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texo , xui, xtum (
I.inf. paragog. texier, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 69), 3, v. a. root tek-; Gr. ἔτεκον, τίκτω, to beget; Sanscr. takman, child; taksh, to make, to weave (class.; syn. neo).
B. Transf., in gen., to join or fit together any thing; to plait, braid, interweave, interlace, intertwine; to construct, make, fabricate, build, etc. (mostly poet.): “rubeā texatur fiscina virgā,Verg. G. 1, 266: “molle feretrum texunt virgis et vimine querno,id. A. 11, 65: “parietem lento vimine,Ov. F. 6, 262; and: “domum vimine querno,Stat. Th. 1, 583. saepes, Verg. G. 2, 371: “crates,Hor. Epod. 2, 45: “rosam,Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 36; cf.: “coronam rosis,Mart. 13, 51, 1: “varios flores,Ov. M. 10, 123: “tegetes,Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 112: “harundinibus textae casae,id. 30, 10, 27, § 89: “navigia ex papyro,id. 13, 11, 22, § 72: “nidos,Quint. 2, 16, 16: “basilicam,Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14: “robore naves,Verg. A. 11, 326: “harundine texta hibernacula,Liv. 30, 3, 9: pyram pinu aridā, Prud. στεφ. 10, 846: “Labyrinthus Parietibus textum caecis iter,Verg. A. 5, 589. —
II. Trop., to weave, compose: “quamquam ea tela texitur et ea incitatur in civitate ratio vivendi, ut, etc.,is devised, contrived, Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 226; cf.: “amor patriae Quod tua texuerunt scripta retexit opus,” i. e. had wrought, produced, Ov. P. 1, 3, 30: “quamquam sermones possunt longi texier,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 68: “epistulas cottidianis verbis,Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1; cf.: “opus luculente,id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 1.—Hence, textum , i, n., that which is woven, a web (poet. and in postAug. prose).
2. Transf., that which is plaited, braided, or fitted together, a plait, texture, fabric: “pinea carinae,Cat. 64, 10; Ov. M. 11, 524; 14, 531; id. F. 1, 506: “non enarrabile clipei,Verg. A. 8, 625: “ferrea,Lucr. 6, 1052; cf. “talia,id. 5, 95: “Lolliam vidi, zmaragdis margaritisque opertam, alterno texto fulgentibus toto capite,in alternate structures, layers, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 117. — *
B. Trop., of literary composition, tissue, texture, style: “dicendi textum tenue,Quint. 9, 4, 17.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (28):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.21.1
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.163
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.123
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 3.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.589
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.326
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.65
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.625
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.266
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.371
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.524
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.640
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.60
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.95
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1052
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 11.79
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 30, 3.9
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.60
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.499
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 16.16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.17
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.3
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 3.3
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 3.6
    • Statius, Thebias, 1
    • Statius, Thebias, 10
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 6
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