(verb) : rĕdĭmĭo, ĭi, ītum, 4 (
* Imperf. redimibat, Verg. A. 10, 538; Aus. Epigr. 94), etym. dub., to bind round, wreathe round, encircle, gird, crown, etc. (mostly poet.; syn.: cingo, circumdo).
* In the verb finit.: caput atque umeros plexis redimire coronis,Lucr. 5, 1399: cui tempora vittā,Verg. A. 10, 538: mitrā capillos,Ov. H. 9, 63: crinem corymbis,Stat. S. 1, 5, 16: chelyn,id. ib. 4, 8, 38: frontem coronā,Mart. 8, 70, 5 al.: sertis redimiri jubebis et rosā?Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: lauro tabellas,Ov. Am. 1, 11, 25; cf.: fastigium aedis tintinnabulis,Suet. Aug. 91: hortum floribus, Col. poët. 10, 286. —Poet.: nec sic innumeros arcu mutante colores Incipiens redimitur hiems,is girt round, environed,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 99.
* In part. perf.: sertis redimiti,Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; cf.: redimitus coronis,id. Rep. 4, 5, 10: anguineo redimita capillo Frons,Cat. 64, 193: frons corymbis,Tib. 1, 7, 45: frons regium in morem,Flor. 3, 19, 10; Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21; cf.: domus floridis corollis,Cat. 63, 66: navigia variarum coronarum genere,Suet. Vit. 10; Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87; v. Sillig ad h. l.: loca silvis, girt round, surrounded, Cat. 63, 3; cf.: Naxos Aegaeo ponto,Sen. Oedip. 487.— Absol.: missile,the wreathed thyrsus,Stat. Achill. 1, 612: cervix,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 246.— In a poet. construction: redimitus tempora lauro, quercu, mitrā, etc.,Tib. 3, 4, 23; Verg. G. 1, 349; Ov. M. 14, 654; 9, 3; id. F. 3, 269; 669; 4, 661; cf.: caput harundine redimitus,Vell. 2, 83, 2 al.

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