pertexo

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

per-texo, xui, xtum, 3, v. a.

I Lit.

A To weave throughout , weave entirely : palla bysso tenui pertexta, i. e. byssina, Ap. Met. 11, 3, 20.—

B To interweave , i. e. to furnish , decorate , adorn with any thing: Odeum, quod Pericles navium malis et antennis pertexuit, Vitr. 5, 9 init. dub. (al. pertexit).—

II Trop., to go through with , perform , accomplish : inceptum dictis, Lucr. 6, 42: locum, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 3: pertexe modo quod exorsus es, id. de Or. 2, 33, 145.

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