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.
