• TIE

1. v. ligare: alligare: deligare: illigare: astringere (to draw, bind tightly): religare: revincire (to bind backward). To tie on to, aliquid in re illigare: to tie anybody to a post, aliquem alligare ad palum: to tie anybody to a chariot, aliquem illigare in currum or religare ad currum: to tie one’s hands behind one’s back, manus religare; manus illigare or religare post tergum: to tie up, substringere: to tie up the hair, capillos in nodum colligere (Ov., Met., 3, 170); obliquare crinem nodoque substringere (Tac., Germ., 38, 2): to tie up to or on anything, alligare, deligare, astringere ad aliquid; illigare in aliqua re: to tie up a vine, vites capistrare or perstringere (to bind fast); adjugare vites (to trellis-work); vites arboribus applicare (to trees).

2. s. vinculum (PROP. and figuratively): nodus, copula (figuratively). There is a closer tie among kinsmen, arctior colligatio est societatis propinquorum: the strict tie of friendship, amicitiae conjunctionisque necessitudo.