(verb) : rĕ-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To bind back or behind, to bind or fasten up, to bind fast (freq. and class.).
* 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 grapplingirons, 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.
* 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.
* 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.