Contexo, contexis, contéxui, contextum, contéxere. Cicer.To weane or ioyne: to worke togither: to lynke or tye togither.Lilia contexere amaranthis. Tibul. To mixe Lillies with flower gentle. Vineæ pornguntur, vnámque faciem longè latéque contexunt. Plm. iunior. The vynes sprende and make that men can see nothing a great compasse but vines all togither.Amores contexere. Catul. To ioyne loue.Puppes contexere caunis. Valer. Flac. To make shippes of reedes.Contexere interrupta. Cicero. To ioyne togither thinges broken.Contexere extrema cum primis.Cic.To ioyne the first and last togither.Contexere carmen.Cicer. At longius quidem mihi hoc carmen liceret contexere. I might make forth this verse longer.Contexere crimen. Cicero. To imagine and deuise an accusation.
Contextus, huius contextus, m. g. Cic.A weauing or ioyning togither.Pennarum contextu corpori tegumenta faciebat.He made apparayle to couer his hody with feathers wrought togither.Contextu longiore loqui. Plin. To speake in a long processe or discourse.Contextus querelarum. Val. Max. Contextus rerum.Cic.Contextus & continuatio sermonis. Quint. A long processe and continuance of talke togither.Factorum dictorúmque contextus. Quint. Lenis & fluens contextus.Quintil.A pleasaunt and flowing style.Contextum dicendi intermittere.Quintil.To slay or panse in speaking.Contextum aliquem dissoluere. Lucret. Recto contextu scribere. Quint. Vno contextu. Vlpian. Continually togither without interruption.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry). A. In gen. 1. Prop.: ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158: alba lilia amarantis, Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these (beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.): fossam loricamque, Tac. A. 4, 49: nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus), Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.): optime epilogum defensioni contexit, Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7: sceleribus scelera contexens, Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—2.Trop.: quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?Cic. Or. 34, 120: conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus, id. Fam. 5, 12, 2: extrema cum primis, id. ib. 10, 13, 2: his et plasticen, Plin. 35, 12, 43, 151: partes, Quint. 4, prooem. 7; 11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis, id. 9, 4, 23 al.: longius hoc carmen,
to weave on, continue
, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf. interrupta, id. Leg. 1, 3, 9: Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die, Quint. 11, 2, 43.—B. Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.). 1.Lit.: equum trabibus acernis, Verg. A. 2, 112: puppes tenui cannā, Val. Fl. 2, 108: saccum tenui vimine, Col. 9, 15, 12.—2.Trop.: orationem, Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf. librum, Sen. Ep. 114, 18: crimen,
to devise, contrive, invent
, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—II.Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of: de sili, Plin. 20, 5, 18, 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected: contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa), Lucr. 4, 57: oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia, Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metafora/), id. 9, 2, 46.— Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection: omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri, Cic. Fat. 14, 32.