(verb) : sub-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3
* To weave under or below any thing; hence, to join on, fasten, affix (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
* Lit. (very rare): lunam alutae,Juv. 7, 192.—Poet.: patrio capiti nubes, i. e. soli,to draw before, veil,Ov. M. 14, 368; cf.: nox subtexta polo,Luc. 4, 104: sol diem subtexit Olympo,spreads around Olympus,Val. Fl. 5, 414.—To cover, hide, darken, obscure, conceal, with acc. of thing concealed: subtexunt nubila caelum,Lucr. 5, 466: caerula nimbis,id. 6, 482: caelum fumo,Verg. A. 3, 582: diem atrā nube,Sen. Phoen. 422: aethera ferro,Luc. 7, 519.
* Trop.
* To add, annex, append, subjoin, Nep. Att. 18, 2: subtexit fabulae huic, legatos interrogatos esse, etc.,Liv. 37, 48; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 13: non ab re fuerit subtexere, quae ... evenerint,Suet. Aug. 94 init.; Vell. 1, 14, 1: curam officiis,Col. 11, 1, 2.
* In gen., to put together, compose, prepare, contrive, etc.: carmina,Tib. 4, 1, 211: originem familiarum,Nep. Att. 18, 2: impedimenta Romanis,Amm. 16, 20.
* To mix: subtexta malis bona sunt,Manil. 3, 526.