vēlo — Lewis & Short
vēlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.velum,
I to cover, cover up, wrap up, wrap, envelop, veil, etc. (class.; syn.: contego, induo).
I 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. —
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.—
II 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.