sub-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a., to weave under or below any thing; hence, to join on, fasten, affix (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
- I. Lit. (very rare): lunam alutae, Juv. 7, 192.
Poet.: patrio capiti nubes, i. e. soli, to draw before, veil, Ov. M. 14, 368; cf.: nox subtexta polo, Luc. 4, 104: sol diem subtexit Olympo, spreads around Olympus, Val. Fl. 5, 414.
To cover, hide, darken, obscure, conceal, with acc. of thing concealed: subtexunt nubila caelum, Lucr. 5, 466: caerula nimbis, id. 6, 482: caelum fumo, Verg. A. 3, 582: diem atrā nube, Sen. Phoen. 422: aethera ferro, Luc. 7, 519.
- II. Trop.
- A. To add, annex, append, subjoin, Nep. Att. 18, 2: subtexit fabulae huic, legatos interrogatos esse, etc., Liv. 37, 48; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 13: non ab re fuerit subtexere, quae … evenerint, Suet. Aug. 94 init.; Vell. 1, 14, 1: curam officiis, Col. 11, 1, 2.
- B. In gen., to put together, compose, prepare, contrive, etc.: carmina, Tib. 4, 1, 211: originem familiarum, Nep. Att. 18, 2: impedimenta Romanis, Amm. 16, 20.
- C. To mix: subtexta malis bona sunt, Manil. 3, 526.