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|lshtext=<b>lĭgo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Gr. [[root]] λυγin [[λύγος]], [[λυγόω]]>,<br /><b>I</b> to [[tie]], [[bind]], [[bind]] [[together]], [[bind]] up, [[bandage]], [[bind]] [[fast]], etc. (syn.: [[vincio]], [[destino]]; perh. [[only]] [[poet]]. and [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[wind]] [[round]], to [[surround]]: [[balteus]] loricam ligat, Val. Fl. 4, 94: digitosque ligat junctura, Ov. M. 2, 375; Sil. 7, 589.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[fix]] or [[fasten]] in: igne cremato lapide [[caementa]] in tectis ligantur, Plin. 36, 27, 68, § 200.—<br /><b>II</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</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.<br /><b>lĭgo</b>: ōnis, m.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[mattock]], [[grub]]-[[axe]], [[hoe]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Poet.: defluit [[aetas]] Et pelagi [[patiens]] et cassidis [[atque]] ligonis, i. e. [[tillage]], [[agriculture]], Juv. 7, 33.