(v. a.P. a.) : suc-cingo (subc-), nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.
* To gird below or from below, to tuck up, gird, gird about, girdle (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; cf. subligo).
* Lit.: crure tenus medio tunicas,Juv. 6, 455: astricti succingant ilia ventres,Grat. Cyn. 271; cf.: Virginem et Leonem Anguis intortus succingit,Vitr. 9, 5 (7), 1: illa (Scylla) feris atram canibus succingitur alvum,Ov. M. 13, 732; cf. Lucr. 5, 892; Tib. 3, 4, 89: eāpse sic succincta,tucked up,Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 80: amicus,Mart. 2, 46, 7: popa,Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62. cursor,Mart. 12, 24, 7: anus,Ov. M. 8, 661: Diana,id. ib. 3, 156; cf.: vestem ritu succincta Dianae,id. ib. 10, 536; 9, 89.— Poet.: succincta comas pinus,with its bare trunk,Ov. M. 10, 103; 15, 603: quis illaec est, quae lugubri Succincta est stolā, girt about, Enn. ap. Non. 198, 2 (Trag. v. 134 Vahl.): succincti gladiis mediā regione cracentes, girt about, armed, id. ap. Fest. s. v. cracentes, p. 53 (Ann. v. 497 ib.): gladio succinctus,Auct. Her. 4, 52, 65: succinctam pharetrā,Verg. A. 1, 323: pallā succincta cruenta,id. ib. 6, 555; cf. amictu,id. ib. 12,401: succincti corda machaeris, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 678 (Ann. v. 392 ib.): pugione succinctus, Anton. ap. Cic. Phil. 13, 16, 33: cultro succinctus,Liv. 7, 5, 3: ferro,id. 40, 9, 12; 40, 7, 7.
* Transf., to surround, furnish, provide, equip, fit out with any thing (syn.: saepio, circumdo): quod multo se pluribus et majoribus canibus succinxerat,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146: frustra se terrore succinxerit,Plin. Pan. 49, 3: his animum succinge bonis,Petr. 5 fin.: succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris,Verg. E. 6, 75: Scylla rapax canibus succincta Molossis,id. Cul. 330: virgineam canibus succincta figuram,Tib. 3, 4, 89: Carthago succincta portubus,Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87: succinctus armis legionibusque,Liv. 21, 10, 4: maximarum gentium viribus,Just. 6, 1, 2: totius ferme Orientis viribus,id. 35, 1, 9: horum scientiā debet esse succinctus,Quint. 12, 5, 1: patriā papyro,Juv. 4, 24.—Hence, succinctus, a, um, P. a. (very rare and post-Aug.).
* Prepared, ready for any thing: proni atque succincti ad omnem clausulam,Quint. 2, 2, 12.
* Contracted, short, concise, succinct (poet. and post-Aug.; cf.: brevis, circumscriptus): libelli,Mart. 2, 1, 3: arbores succinctiores,Plin. 16, 10, 17, § 39: succinctior brevitas,Aug. Ep. 157 med.—Adv.: suc-cinctē, briefly, concisely, succinctly (late Lat.; cf.: breviter, strictim): docere,Amm. 28, 1, 2.—Comp.: fari,Sid. Ep. 1, 9: dimicare,Amm. 20, 11, 20.