laqueo

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lăquĕo: (or lăcŭo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. laquear,
I to adorn with a panelled or fretted ceiling (perh. only in the part.): tectis caelatis lacuatis, panelled, fretted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85 (Trag. v. 121 Vahl.); Serv. Verg. A. 1, 726: tecta, Hor. C. 2, 16, 11: Jovis Capitolini templum, non laqueatum auro tantum, sed parietibus totis lammina inauratum, Liv. 41, 20, 9; cf.: considerat templum, videt undique tectum pulcherrime laqueatum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 133: laqueata tecta, id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: cenationes laqueatae, panelled dining - rooms, Suet. Ner. 31.
lăquĕo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. laqueus,
I to noose, ensnare, entangle (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: extentis laqueare profundum Retibus, Manil. 5, 659: cassem Per senos circum usque sinus laqueabis, i. e. to plait, Grat. Cyn. 40: corpus laqueatum et distentum, Col. 6, 19, 3: laqueatis resistentium membris, Amm. 31, 2, 9: laqueatis cruribus (elephantorum), entangled, Sol. 20, 11.—
II Trop., to ensnare, etc.: si te forte oculi dextri laqueaverit error, Juvenc. 1, 537.