• enchain: Fig.: to keep deeply interested: tĕneo, ui, ntum, 2: you were e.'d by his genius and style of eloquence, ingenio ejus et dicendi genere tenebamini, Cic. Coel. 11, 25: cf. id. Acad. 2, 7, 20, "ut oculi pictura teneantur, aures cantibus" (but the word is weaker than the Eng.) Phr.: they were e.'d with interest, defixi ora tenebant, Virg. A. 8, 520: cf. intenti ora tenebant, ib. 2, 1: his very breath is e.'d to your lips, e tuo pendet resupinus spiritus ore, Lucr. 1, 38: e.'d with admiration at those strains, illis carminibus stupens, Hor. Od. 1, 13, 33: cf. Hor. concerning Orpheus, saxa movere et ducere quo vellet, A. P. 395.