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vēlo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. velum,
I.to cover, cover up, wrap up, wrap, envelop, veil, etc. (class.; syn.: contego, induo).
I. Lit.: “capite velato,Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 10; Quint. 2, 13, 13; 6, 1, 48: “caput velatum filo,Liv. 1, 32, 6; cf.: “capita ante aras Phrygio amictu,Verg. A. 3, 545: “varices,Quint. 11, 3, 143: “partes tegendas,Ov. M. 13, 479: “velanda corporis,Plin. Ep. 6, 24, 3: antennas, covered with or supporting the sails, Verg. A. 3, 549.—Of clothing: “velatus togā,enveloped, clothed, Liv. 3, 26, 10: “purpurea veste,Ov. M. 2, 23: “tunicā,id. F. 3, 645: “stolā,Hor. S. 1, 2, 71; Tib. 1, 5, 25 (3, 4, 55): “amiculis,Curt. 3, 3, 10: “umeros chlamyde,Spart. Sev. 19.—Of other objects: “maternā tempora myrto,Verg. A. 5, 72: “tempora purpureis tiaris,to wrap round, bind round, Ov. M. 11, 181: “tempora vittis,id. P. 3, 2, 75: “coronā,id. ib. 4, 14, 55; cf. “in a Greek construction: Amphicus albenti velatus tempora vittā,id. M. 5, 110: “cornua lauro,id. ib. 15, 592: “frondibus hastam,id. ib. 3, 667: “serta molas,id. F. 6, 312: “Palatia sertis,id. Tr. 4, 2, 3: “delubra deūm fronde,Verg. A. 2, 249: velatis manibus orant, ignoscamus peccatum suum, i. e. holding the velamenta (v. h. v. I. C.), Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 101; cf.: “velati ramis oleae,Verg. A. 11, 101. —
B. Milit. t. t.; P. a. as subst.: vēlāti , ōrum, m., soldiers who wore only a cloak; only in the phrase accensi velati, a kind of supernumerary troops who followed the army to fill the places of any who might fall, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40; and in late Lat. inscrr. freq. sing.: “ACCENSVS VELATVS, one such soldier,Inscr. Orell. 111; 1368; 2153; 2182; v. accenseo, P. a. B.—
II. Trop., to hide, conceal (post-Aug.; several times in Tac.; “otherwise rare): odium fallacibus blanditiis,Tac. A. 14, 56: “externa falsis armis,id. H. 4, 32; cf. id. A. 12, 61: “primas adulescentis cupidines,id. ib. 13, 13: “culpam invidiā,id. ib. 6, 29: scelere velandum est scelus, Sen. Hippol. 721: “nihil (with omittere),Plin. Pan. 56, 1.—Hence, * vēlātō , adv., through a veil, darkly, obscurely: “deum discere,Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 29.
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