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detexo
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Lewis Short
dē-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3
* V. a., to weave off, to finish or make by weaving, to weave, plait (mostly poet.).
* Lit.: inter decem annos unam togam, Titin. ap. Non. 406, 19; cf.: ad detexundam telam,Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 7: vestimentum,Dig. 32, 1, 70, § 11.— Comic.: pallium (qs. to take it from the loom),to steal,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 138: aliquid viminibus mollique junco,Verg. E. 2, 72; cf.: fiscellam vimine junci,Tib. 2, 3, 15.
* Trop., to explain, describe, complete, finish: (lacteus) non perpetuum detexens conficit orbem,Cic. Arat. 250: te ab summo jam detexam exordio, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 27, 42; cf.: ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158: at modo coeptum detexatur opus,Aus. Edyll. 10, 411.
* V. a., to weave off, to finish or make by weaving, to weave, plait (mostly poet.).
* Lit.: inter decem annos unam togam, Titin. ap. Non. 406, 19; cf.: ad detexundam telam,Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 7: vestimentum,Dig. 32, 1, 70, § 11.— Comic.: pallium (qs. to take it from the loom),to steal,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 138: aliquid viminibus mollique junco,Verg. E. 2, 72; cf.: fiscellam vimine junci,Tib. 2, 3, 15.
* Trop., to explain, describe, complete, finish: (lacteus) non perpetuum detexens conficit orbem,Cic. Arat. 250: te ab summo jam detexam exordio, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 27, 42; cf.: ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158: at modo coeptum detexatur opus,Aus. Edyll. 10, 411.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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