(verb) : lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, Gr. root λυγin λύγος, λυγόω
* To tie, bind, bind together, bind up, bandage, bind fast, etc. (syn.: vincio, destino; perh. only poet. and post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: manus post terga ligatae,Ov. M. 3, 575: ligare et vincire crura et manus,Gell. 12, 3, 1: crus fasciā,Phaedr. 5, 7, 36: laqueo guttura,to tie up,Ov. M. 6, 134: vulnera veste,to bind up, bandage,id. ib. 7, 849: dum mula ligatur,is harnessed,Hor. S. 1, 5, 13: funem litoribus,Luc. 8, 61: sudarium circum collum,to bind around,Suet. Ner. 51: pisces in glacie ligatos,i. e. frozen fast,Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 49: nimbi ligati,i. e. ice,Petr. 123.
* Transf., to wind round, to surround: balteus loricam ligat,Val. Fl. 4, 94: digitosque ligat junctura,Ov. M. 2, 375; Sil. 7, 589.
* Trop., to bind up, bind together, unite: dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit,Ov. M. 1, 25: vinclo propiore cum aliquo ligari,id. ib. 9, 548: laqueo colla,id. P. 1, 6, 39.
* To ratify, confirm: pacta,Prop. 4 (5), 4, 82.conjugia artibus magicis,Sen. Herc. Oet. 452: argumenta in catenas, * Quint. 5, 14, 32.—Hence, P. a.: lĭgātus, a, um, connected with, adjoining: Tartari ripis ligatos squalidae mortis specus,Sen. Med. 742.

lĭgo (noun M) :
* A mattock, grub-axe, hoe.
* Lit.: longis purgare ligonibus arva,Ov. P. 1, 8, 59: ligonibus duris humum Exhaurire,Hor. Epod. 5, 30: ligonibus Versare glebas,id. C. 3, 6, 38; Ov. Am. 3, 10, 31: centeno ligone domare arva,Mart. 4, 64, 32: fractus, so called from the bent form of the iron, Col. poët. 10, 88: erectum domito referens a monte ligonem,Juv. 11, 89.
* Poet.: defluit aetas Et pelagi patiens et cassidis atque ligonis,i. e. tillage, agriculture,Juv. 7, 33.

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