ligamen

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

lĭgāmen, ĭnis, n. [1. ligo],

a band, tie, bandage (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Sidoniae nocturna ligamina mitrae, Prop. 2, 22, 15; Ov. M. 14, 230: ligamina vitium, Col. 11, 2, 92: ligamina herbarum, id. 12, 8, 1.—In sing.: papyri ligamen, a bandage, ligature , Col. 6, 6, 4.

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