string (v.) Copy link Outline I. To connect by a stringII. To furnish a musical instrument with strings • string (v.): I. To connect by a string: perh. *colligare linea, etc. (v. string, subs., I.). Phr.: to s. ripe figs, resticulas (cords) per ficos maturas perserere (to pierce through), Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 5: pearls strung, (margaritae) pertusae in linea (opp. extricatae, loose), Ulp. Dig. 9, 2, 27, fin. [For to s. together, v. to connect.] II. To furnish a musical instrument with strings: Phr.: to s. a lyre, fides contendere nervis, based on Cic. Fin. 4, 27, 75: *lyram intendere nervis (Georg.): *lyrae, citharae, etc., nervos aptare (Ainsw.): a s.'d instrument, (1.) fĭdes, ium: to play on a s.'d instrument, fidibus canere, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 122. (2.) nervi: Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: Virg. Aen. 9, 773.