implecto (inpl-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. [in-plecto], to plait, wind, or twist into, to wind or twist among, to interweave, interlace, entwine (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; usually in the part. perf.).
I Lit.: multae hirudines dentibus (crocodili) implectuntur, Ap. Mag. p. 278: inplexis ita principiis, Lucr. 3, 33: dracones quaternos quinosque inter se cratium modo implexos, Plin. 8, 13, 13, § 35: capillus horrore implexus atque impeditus, Ap. Mag. p. 276; cf. in a Greek construction, caeruleos implexae crinibus angues Eumenides, Verg. G. 4, 482: manibus implexis, Sen. Ben. 1, 3; cf. Ap. Met. 3, 15, 6.—*
II Trop.: vidua implexa luctu continuo, implicated , involved , entangled , Tac. A. 16, 10, v. Orell. ad h. l.