(verb) : in-necto, nexŭi, nexum, 3 (innectier for innecti, Prud. Psych. 375)
* To tie, join, bind, attach, connect, or fasten to, together, or about.
* Lit.: paribus palmas amborum innexuit armis,Verg. A. 5, 425: colla auro,id. ib. 8, 661: tempora sertis,to deck, garland,Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 3: fauces laqueo,to encircle,id. M. 10, 378: colla lacertis,id. ib. 11, 240: bracchia collo,Stat. Th. 4, 26: ambos innectens manibus,id. ib. 1, 511: mancipia compedibus,Col. 11, 1, 22: innecti cervicibus, to fasten upon, cling to, or embrace the neck, Tac. H. 4, 46; cf.: tunc placuit caesis innectere vincula silvis,Luc. 2, 670; v. Orelli ad Hor. Epod. 17, 72.— With acc.: nodos et vincula rupit, Queis innexa pedem malo pendebat ab alto,Verg. A. 5, 511: vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis,id. ib. 6, 281.
* Trop.
* In gen., to connect one thing with another, adduce or devise successively, weave, frame, contrive: causas innecte morandi,Verg. A. 4, 51: moras,Stat. Th. 5, 743: fraudem clienti,Verg. A. 6, 609.
* In partic.
* To entangle, implicate: innexus conscientiae alicujus,Tac. A. 3, 10.
* To join, connect: Hyrcanis per affinitatem innexus erat,Tac. A. 6, 36: motus animi innexi implicatique vigoribus quibusdam mentium,Gell. 19, 2, 3: mentem, i. e. veneficio illigare,Sen. Hipp. 416.

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