The corpus record — Latin

ligo2

ligo2 · v. a

to tie, bind, bind together

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 6 · 7.1/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 5 · 6.59/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Carmina 12 · 5.35/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
Silvae 10 · 3.99/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lĭgo — Lewis & Short

lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.Gr. root lugin lu/gos, lugo/w,

I to tie, bind, bind together, bind up, bandage, bind fast, etc. (syn.: vincio, destino; perh. only poet. and post-Aug. prose).

I 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.—

B Transf., to wind round, to surround: balteus loricam ligat, Val. Fl. 4, 94: digitosque ligat junctura, Ov. M. 2, 375; Sil. 7, 589.—

2 To fix or fasten in: igne cremato lapide caementa in tectis ligantur, Plin. 36, 27, 68, § 200.—

II 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.—

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.

2. lĭgo — Lewis & Short

lĭgo, ōnis, m.,

I a mattock, grub-axe, hoe.

I 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.—

II Poet.: defluit aetas Et pelagi patiens et cassidis atque ligonis, i. e. tillage, agriculture, Juv. 7, 33.

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