The corpus record — Latin

implecto

implecto · v. a

to plait

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Apologia 3 · 1.4/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

implecto — Lewis & Short

implecto (inpl-), xi, xum, 3, v. a.in-plecto,

I to plait, wind, or twist into, to wind or twist among, to interweave, interlace, entwine (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; usually in the part. perf.).

I Lit.: multae hirudines dentibus (crocodili) implectuntur, App. Mag. p. 278: inplexis ita principiis, Lucr. 3, 33: dracones quaternos quinosque inter se cratium modo implexos, Plin. 8, 13, 13, § 35: capillus horrore implexus atque impeditus, App. Mag. p. 276; cf. in a Greek construction, caeruleos implexae crinibus angues Eumenides, Verg. G. 4, 482: manibus implexis, Sen. Ben. 1, 3; cf. App. M. 3, p. 135.—*

II Trop.: vidua implexa luctu continuo, implicated, involved, entangled, Tac. A. 16, 10, v. Orell. ad h. l.

In the wild

implexis Apuleius, Apologia 9
implexa Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.7.2
implectuntur Apuleius, Apologia 8
implexa Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.15.p1
implexae Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 129
implexos Seneca, Oedipus 1

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