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The corpus record — Latin

evincio

evincio · v. a

to bind up

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-vincĭo — Lewis & Short

ē-vincĭo, nxi, nctum, 4, v. a.,

I to bind up, to bind or wind round with something (not ante-Aug., and mostly poet.): simul diademate caput Tiridatis evinxit, Tac. A. 15, 2; cf. id. ib. 6, 43.—More freq. in the part. perf.: viridi Mnestheus evinctus oliva, Verg. A. 5, 494; cf. palmae, i. e. wound round with the cestus, id. ib. 5, 364: comae (sc. vittā), Ov. Am. 3, 6, 56: evincta pudicā Fronde manus, crowned with laurel, Stat. Th. 1, 554.—With acc. respectiv.: puniceo stabis suras evincta cothurno, Verg. E. 7, 32; id. A. 5, 269; 774; 8, 286; Ov. M. 15, 676.—
II To bind: evincta lacerandum traditi dextra, Sil. 2, 48 (dub.; al. victa).

Where it came from

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