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|lshtext=<b>vēlo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[velum]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[cover]], [[cover]] up, [[wrap]] up, [[wrap]], [[envelop]], [[veil]], etc. ([[class]].; syn.: [[contego]], [[induo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: capite [[velato]], Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 10; Quint. 2, 13, 13; 6, 1, 48: [[caput]] velatum filo, Liv. 1, 32, 6; cf.: capita [[ante]] aras Phrygio amictu, Verg. A. 3, 545: varices, Quint. 11, 3, 143: partes tegendas, Ov. M. 13, 479: velanda corporis, Plin. Ep. 6, 24, 3: antennas, [[covered]] [[with]] or supporting the sails, Verg. A. 3, 549.—Of [[clothing]]: velatus togā, enveloped, clothed, Liv. 3, 26, 10: purpurea veste, Ov. M. 2, 23: tunicā, id. F. 3, 645: stolā, Hor. S. 1, 2, 71; Tib. 1, 5, 25 (3, 4, 55): amiculis, Curt. 3, 3, 10: umeros chlamyde, Spart. Sev. 19.—Of [[other]] objects: maternā tempora myrto, Verg. A. 5, 72: tempora purpureis tiaris, to [[wrap]] [[round]], [[bind]] [[round]], Ov. M. 11, 181: tempora vittis, id. P. 3, 2, 75: coronā, id. ib. 4, 14, 55; cf. in a Greek [[construction]]: Amphicus albenti velatus tempora vittā, id. M. 5, 110: cornua lauro, id. ib. 15, 592: frondibus hastam, id. ib. 3, 667: [[serta]] molas, id. F. 6, 312: Palatia sertis, id. Tr. 4, 2, 3: delubra deūm fronde, Verg. A. 2, 249: velatis manibus orant, ignoscamus [[peccatum]] suum, i. e. holding the velamenta (v. h. v. I. C.), Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 101; cf.: [[velati]] ramis oleae, Verg. A. 11, 101. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Milit. t. t.; P. a. as subst.: vēlāti, ōrum, m., soldiers [[who]] wore [[only]] a [[cloak]]; [[only]] in the [[phrase]] accensi [[velati]], a [[kind]] of [[supernumerary]] [[troops]] [[who]] followed the [[army]] to [[fill]] the places of [[any]] [[who]] [[might]] [[fall]], Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40; and in [[late]] Lat. inscrr. freq. sing.: ACCENSVS VELATVS, one [[such]] [[soldier]], Inscr. Orell. 111; 1368; 2153; 2182; v. [[accenseo]], P. a. B.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[hide]], [[conceal]] ([[post]]-Aug.; [[several]] times in Tac.; [[otherwise]] [[rare]]): [[odium]] fallacibus blanditiis, Tac. A. 14, 56: externa falsis armis, id. H. 4, 32; cf. id. A. 12, 61: [[primas]] adulescentis cupidines, id. ib. 13, 13: culpam invidiā, id. ib. 6, 29: scelere velandum est [[scelus]], Sen. Hippol. 721: [[nihil]] ([[with]] omittere), Plin. [[Pan]]. 56, 1.—Hence, * vēlātō, adv., [[through]] a [[veil]], [[darkly]], [[obscurely]]: deum discere, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 29.