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|lshtext=<b>pecto</b>: pexi (pexui, Alcim. Ep. 77), pexum and pectĭtum, 3, v. a. Gr. [[πέκω]], [[πεκτέω]]>, to [[comb]], [[shear]]; [[πόκος]]>, [[fleece]]; Lat. [[pecten]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[comb]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: tenues comas, Tib. 1, 9, 68: longas comas, id. 2, 5, 8: caesariem, Hor. C. 1, 15, 14: capillos, Ov. H. 13, 31; cf.: pexisti capillum, Maec. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P: barbam, Juv. 14, 216: pectebat ferum (cervum), Verg. A. 7, 489: capilli pexi, Juv. 11, 150: pexa [[barba]], Mart. 7, 58, 2: [[ille]] [[pexus]] pinguisque [[doctor]], Quint. 1, 5, 14.—In a Greek [[construction]]: ipsa comas pectar, Ov. H. 13, 39.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[comb]], [[card]], [[heckle]]: [[stuppa]] pectitur ferreis hamis, Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 17: pectitae lanae, Col. 12, 3, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[dress]], [[hoe]], [[weed]], Col. 10, 148: pectita [[tellus]], id. 10, 94.—Hence,<br /><b>III</b> Trop., [[comic]].: aliquem fusti or pugnis, to [[give]] one a [[dressing]] or [[thrashing]]: [[leno]] pugnis pectitur, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 47: pugnis, id. Men. 5, 7, 28: aliquem fusti, id. Capt. 4, 2, 116.—Hence, [[pexus]] (as a [[surname]], written PEXSVS, PEXSA, Inscr. Grut. 487, 1; Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 91), a, um, P. a., [[woolly]], [[that]] [[still]] has the [[nap]] on, [[new]]: [[tunica]], Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 95: vestes, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 191.—Hence: pexa munera, prob. a [[new]] [[woolly]] [[toga]], Mart. 7, 46, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.: [[folium]], [[woolly]], Col. 11, 3, 26.