rĕ-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
I To bind back or behind , to bind or fasten up , to bind fast (freq. and class.).
A Lit.: aspicite (Prometheum) religatum asperis Vinctumque saxis, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.: trahit Hectorem ad currum religatum Achillis, id. ib. 1, 44, 105; and: (Andromedam) ad duras religatam bracchia cautes Vidit, Ov. M. 4, 671; 683: manus post terga, Suet. Vit. 17: aliquem inter duos currus, Flor. 1, 3, 8: remos struppis, Liv. Andron. ap. Isid. 19, 4, 9: flavam comam, Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.: religata comas in nodum, id. ib. 2, 11, 24: religata crines, id. ib. 4, 11, 5: navem ferreis manibus injectis, fastened with grappling irons , grappled , Caes. B. C. 2, 6: transversas trabes axibus, id. ib. 2, 9, 2; cf. id. ib. § 5; 2, 10: restim ad pinnam muri, Liv. 8, 16: religato pro foribus cane, Suet. Vit. 16: religatos rite videbat Carpere gramen equos, Verg. A. 9, 352: capillum in vertice, Tac. G. 38: desectam herbam, to bind together , tie up , Col. 2, 18, 5; cf.: folia lactucae, Plin. 19, 8, 39, § 131: robora catenis, Luc. 2, 671: catenā religari, Ov. H. 10, 89: catenā aliquem, id. Am. 1, 6, 1; Flor. 3, 19: religavit (Raphael) illud (daemonium) in deserto, Vulg. Tob. 8, 3. —
2 In partic., nautical t. t., to fasten or moor a ship to the shore: naves ad terram religare, Caes. B. C. 3, 15; Plin. Pan. 82, 2 (with revincire): ab aggere classem, Verg. A. 7, 106: litore Threïcio classem, Ov. M. 13, 439: religata in litore pinus, id. ib. 14, 248; Hor. C. 1, 32, 7; id. S. 1, 5, 19; cf.: funem (navis) in Cretam, Cat. 64, 174: ab Emathio litore funem, Luc. 7, 860: funes ex arboribus ripae, Dig. 1, 8, 5 pr.—
B Trop., to bind , fasten , chain , fetter : quae (prudentia) si extrinsecus religata pendeat, etc., bound to external things , Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 37: hoc vinculo pietatis obstricti Deo et religati, Lact. 4, 28, 3; cf. id. 4, 28, 12: dapibusque simul religataque somno agmina, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 472.—
II To unbind (only poet. and in post-class. prose): Cybele religat juga manu, Cat. 63, 84 (for which id. 63, 76: resolvens juga): vitem resolvere ac religare, Pall. 3, 13, 2.