• YOKE

1. s. jugum (PROP. and figuratively): jugum servitutis: jugum servile; servitus, -utis (figuratively). To put on or impose a yoke, jugum alicui imponere (PROP. and figuratively): to take off a yoke, jugum alicui solvere or demere (PROP.); aliquem eximere servitio (figuratively): to shake off a yoke, jugum excutere; jugum exuere; jugo se exuexe (PROP. and figuratively; exuere, with the idea of gradually shaking off); jugum servile a cervicibus dejicere; servitutem exuere (figuratively): to bring anybody under the yoke of slavery, alicui jugum servitutis injungere: to deliver anybody from a yoke, jugum servitutis a cervicibus alicujus depellere: to submit to a yoke, jugum accipere (all figuratively): to keep under the yoke of slavery, aliquem servitute oppressum tenere. Hence, by metonymy = a pair of oxen (yoked together), jugum (boum).

2. v. jugum imponere (e.g., bubus); jugo aliquem subdere et ad currum jungere (Plin., 8, 16, 20); (boves) jugo jungere (Cic.). To yoke together, (boves) conjungere.