verb transitive

ē-vincĭo

2nd PP ē-vincīre · 3rd PP ē-vincnxi · 4th PP ē-vinctum · conj. 4th

to bind up; to bind; wind round with something poetic ••

to bind up, to bind or wind round with something (not ante-Aug., and mostly poet.): simul diademate caput Tiridatis evinxit, Tac. A. 15, 2; cf. id. ib. 6, 43.—More freq. in the part. perf.: viridi Mnestheus evinctus oliva, Verg. A. 5, 494; cf. palmae, i. e. wound round with the cestus, id. ib. 5, 364: comae (sc. vittā), Ov. Am. 3, 6, 56: evincta pudicā Fronde manus, crowned with laurel, Stat. Th. 1, 554.—With acc. respectiv.: puniceo stabis suras evincta cothurno, Verg. E. 7, 32; id. A. 5, 269; 774; 8, 286; Ov. M. 15, 676.—

To bind •

To bind: evincta lacerandum traditi dextra, Sil. 2, 48 (dub.; al. victa).

Perseus ID: n16487 Key: evincio