ligo
Τί ὕπνος; Καμάτων ἀνάπαυσις, ἰατρῶν κατόρθωμα, δεδεμένων λύσις, ἀγρυπνούντων σοφία, νοσούντων εὐχή, θανάτου εἰκών, ταλαιπωρούντων ἐπιθυμία, πάσης πνοῆς ἡσυχία, πλουσίων ἐπιτήδευμα, πενήτων ἀδολεσχία, καθημερινὴ μελέτη. → What is sleep? Rest from toil, the success of physicians, the release of those who are bound, the wisdom of the wakeful, what sick men pray for, an image of death, the desire of those who toil in hardship, the rest of all the spirit, a principal occupation of the rich, the idle chatter of poor men, a daily object of concern.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
lĭgo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Gr. root λυγin λύγος, λυγόω>,
I to tie, bind, bind together, bind up, bandage, bind fast, etc. (syn.: vincio, destino; perh. only poet. and post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: manus post terga ligatae, Ov. M. 3, 575: ligare et vincire crura et manus, Gell. 12, 3, 1: crus fasciā, Phaedr. 5, 7, 36: laqueo guttura, to tie up, Ov. M. 6, 134: vulnera veste, to bind up, bandage, id. ib. 7, 849: dum mula ligatur, is harnessed, Hor. S. 1, 5, 13: funem litoribus, Luc. 8, 61: sudarium circum collum, to bind around, Suet. Ner. 51: pisces in glacie ligatos, i. e. frozen fast, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 49: nimbi ligati, i. e. ice, Petr. 123.—
B Transf., to wind round, to surround: balteus loricam ligat, Val. Fl. 4, 94: digitosque ligat junctura, Ov. M. 2, 375; Sil. 7, 589.—
2 To fix or fasten in: igne cremato lapide caementa in tectis ligantur, Plin. 36, 27, 68, § 200.—
II Trop., to bind up, bind together, unite: dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit, Ov. M. 1, 25: vinclo propiore cum aliquo ligari, id. ib. 9, 548: laqueo colla, id. P. 1, 6, 39.—
B To ratify, confirm: pacta, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 82: conjugia artibus magicis, Sen. Herc. Oet. 452: argumenta in catenas, * Quint. 5, 14, 32.—Hence, P. a.: lĭgātus, a, um, connected with, adjoining: Tartari ripis ligatos squalidae mortis specus, Sen. Med. 742.
lĭgo: ōnis, m.,
I a mattock, grub-axe, hoe.
I Lit.: longis purgare ligonibus arva, Ov. P. 1, 8, 59: ligonibus duris humum Exhaurire, Hor. Epod. 5, 30: ligonibus Versare glebas, id. C. 3, 6, 38; Ov. Am. 3, 10, 31: centeno ligone domare arva, Mart. 4, 64, 32: fractus, so called from the bent form of the iron, Col. poët. 10, 88: erectum domito referens a monte ligonem, Juv. 11, 89.—
II Poet.: defluit aetas Et pelagi patiens et cassidis atque ligonis, i. e. tillage, agriculture, Juv. 7, 33.
