Lewis & Short

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per-texo, xui, xtum, 3, v. a.

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. To weave throughout, weave entirely: palla bysso tenui pertexta, i. e. byssina, App. M. 11, p. 258, 21.
    2. B. To interweave, i. e. to furnish, decorate, adorn with any thing: Odeum, quod Pericles navium malis et antennis pertexuit, Vitr. 5, 9 init. dub. (al. pertexit).
  2. II. Trop., to go through with, perform, accomplish: inceptum dictis, Lucr. 6, 42: locum, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 3: pertexe modo quod exorsus es, id. de Or. 2, 33, 145.