contexo

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

con-texō xuī, xtus, ere,

to weave, entwine, join, bind: (ovium) villis contextis: haec directā materiā iniecta contexebantur, Cs.: simulacra, quorum contexta viminibus membra, etc., Cs. — To compose, construct, put together: trabibus contextus acernis equus, V. — Fig., to devise: crimen.—To recount, recite: longius hoc carmen, quote further: aliquos tanto cursu, ut, etc., fast enough, Iu.

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