Laqueus, láquel, m. g. Liu.An halter: any thing that one is snatled or tied with: a ginne: a snare.Tetetes laquei. Sen. Validi laquci. Propert. Tenaces laquei. Sen. Captate feras laqueis.Virg.To set snares for beastes.Auimam laqueo claudere.Ouid.To hang him selfe.Compellere aliquem ad laqueum, Vide COMPELLO.Exuere le ex laqueis. Vide EXVO. Implicare collum laqueis.Ouid.Inijcere laqueum alicui, Vide INIICIO.Int ealiquem laqueo. Horat. To hang, or throttle withLigare guttura laqueo.Ouid.Nodatus collum laqueo.Ouid.Premere collum laqueo. Horat. Laqueus.Any thing that one is snared or taken in.Laquei iudicij. Cicero. The penalties of the lawe by indgement, which as it were wrappech and intangleth ill doers.Laquei legum ac iudiciorum.Cic.Induere se in laqueos, Vide INDVO.Laqueo verbi capi.Cic.To be taken with the rigorous sence of a word.Inexplicabiles laquci. Quint. Ad Chrysippi laqueos reuertamur.Cic.Cadere in laqueos.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăquĕus, i, m. [cf. Gr. e(/lkw, draw, o(lko/s; Lat. lacio; perh. Germ. locken], a noose, snare (class.; cf. tendicula). I.Lit., Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 41: saxa laqueis vinciebat, Sall. J. 94: laqueis falces avertebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 22: collum in laqueum inserere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, 37: inicere laqueum, to throw over any one, Liv. 1, 26: inicere cervicibus laqueum, Suet. Vit. 17: laqueo gulam alicui frangere,
to throttle, strangle
, Sall. C. 55, 4: ad laqueum compellere aliquem,
to the halter
, Plin. 36, 5, 4, 12: alicui mandare laqueum,
to bid go and be hanged
, Juv. 10, 53: neque carcer neque laqueus,
a halter, gallows
, Tac. A. 3, 50; 5, 9: faucesque jam exanimis laqueo vexatae, id. ib. 6, 40.—Of a snare, trap or lasso used by hunters: laqueis captare feras, Verg. G. 1, 139: metuit foveam lupus accipiterque Suspectos laqueos, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 51: laqueos et muscipula effugere, Phaedr. 4, 2, 8; cf.: impliciti laqueis nudus uterque jacent, Ov. A. A. 2, 580: dare in laqueum vestigia,
to step into a snare
, Juv. 13, 244.—II.Trop., a snare, gin, trap. A. In gen.: judicii laqueos declinans, Cic. Mil. 15, 40; cf.: interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire, id. de Or. 1, 10, 43: laquei Stoicorum,
subtleties
, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76: Chrysippi laquei, id. Fat. 4, 7: legum et condicionum, id. Clu. 55, 150: verbi laqueo capere, id. Caecin. 29, 83.—Without a gen.: in hos inexplicabiles laqueos inciderunt, Quint. 5, 10, 101: (testes) inducuntur in laqueos, id. 5, 7, 11: sciens in hoc se laqueos induxit, Lact. 6, 12, 13.—B.Fetters, chains, hinderances: tibi fortuna laqueum impegit, quem nec solvere posses nec erumpere, Sen. Tranq. 10, 1: nunquamne hos artissimos laqueos abrumpam, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3.