fold (subs.) Copy link Outline I. For flocks1. ŏvīle, is, n.2. septum or saeptum, usu. pl. (any enclosure)3. conseptum (like septum)4. stăbŭlum (strictly for large cattle)II. Of a garment1. plĭcātūra (strictly the act of folding)2. sĭnus, ūs (of a rounded, swelling form)3. rūga (a smaller f.; a wrinkling) • fold (subs.): I. For flocks: 1. ŏvīle, is, n.: to prowl around the f. (of the wolf), explorare insidias ovilia circum, Virg. G. 3, 537: Ov. (Not used by the Scriptores Rei Rusticae.) 2. septum or saeptum, usu. pl. (any enclosure): to return to the f. (at evening), septa repetere, Col. 6, 23: Virg. 3. conseptum (like septum): Col. 6, 23. 4. stăbŭlum (strictly for large cattle): Virg.: Col.: v. stall. II. Of a garment: 1. plĭcātūra (strictly the act of folding): f.s of drapery, stragulae vestis plicaturae, cf. Plin. 7, 51, 52. 2. sĭnus, ūs (of a rounded, swelling form): making a lap-like f. of his toga, s. ex toga facto, Liv. 21, 18, fin. (v. Dict. Ant. s. v.): flowing f.s, s. fluentes, Virg.: Cimon introduced wrinklings and f.s of drapery (in painting), Cimon in veste rugas et s. invenit, Plin. 35, 8, 34, fin. 3. rūga (a smaller f.; a wrinkling): f.s (or creases) arranged by design, r. de industria collocatae, Macr. Sat. 2, 9, ad init.: v. supr. (2). Phr.: to hang gracefully, in becoming f.s, apte pendere, Ov. Met. 2, 733: full of f.s, multĭplex: the intestines have many f.s and convolutions, alvus est multiplex et tortuosa, Cic.: similarly, with three f.s, triplex, etc. (v. three-fold., etc.).
fold Copy link Outline 1. expr. by comps. in -plex, plĭcis2. (in certain phr.) expr. by cum, with ord. num. adj. • fold: as suffix: 1. expr. by comps. in -plex, plĭcis: v. preced. art. fin. 2. (in certain phr.) expr. by cum, with ord. num. adj.: the land yields an eight-f., ten.-f. return, ager efficit cum octavo, cum decimo, Cic. Verr. 3, 47: Varr.: also with a subs. expressed: the land yielding a hundred-f. return, cum centesima fruge fenus reddente terra, Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 24.
fold (v.) Copy link Outline I. To double up1. plĭco, āvi and ui, ātum, 12. complĭco, 13. replĭco, 1II. To pen sheep • fold (v.): I. To double up: 1. plĭco, āvi and ui, ātum, 1: to f. a sheet of paper, chartam p., Mart. 4, 82, fin. 2. complĭco, 1: to f. up a letter, epistolam c., Cic. Att. 12, 1. 3. replĭco, 1: f.ing back outside the inside of its skin (of a serpent), replicans ut extra fiat membranae quod fuerat intus, Plin. 8, 27, 41. Phr.: to f. the hands, digitos pectinatim inter se plectere, Plin. 28, 6, 17 (comp. Ov. Met. 9, 299): less precisely, to sit with f.'d hands (idle), manibus, quod aiunt, compressis sedere, Liv. 7, 14, med.: to stretch forth f.'d hands, duplices tendere palmas, Virg. Aen. 1, 94. II. To pen sheep: septis inclūdo, si, sum, 3: Varr.: v. fold (subs.).
FOLD Copy link • FOLD 1. s. ovile: stabulum (general term for “stalls” for cattle; for sheep, Varr., R.R., 2, 5, p. 183, Bipont.): septa (Varr., ib.): crates pastorales (the hurdles). Of a garment, plicatura, or (if there are many) plicaturae: ruga (PROP., a wrinkle of the skin; then, also, of a gown, etc.; fold, considered as a slight elevation): sinus (the space between the folds, the great fold or hollow made by the manner in which the ancients used to take up their toga with the left arm; Vid: Macrobius, Sat., 2, 9; hence Plin., 35, 8, 34, Cimon... in veste et rugas et sinus invenit). To hang down in folds, replicari in rugas: to arrange one’s dress in graceful folds, collocare vestem (chlamydem, etc.), ut apte pendeat (Ov.). 2. v. To double up, complicare aliquid (to fold up; a letter, etc.): artare in rugas aliquid: rugas locare in aliqua re (to fold a garment, after Plin., 8, 10, 10; Macrobius, Sat. 2, 9): Anything is folded, replicatur in rugas (after Plin., 17, 14, 24): to fold back, replicare: to fold one’s hands, digitos inter se pectine nectere (Ov., Met., 9, 299); digitos pectinatim inter se implectere (Plin., 28, 6, 179). To sit with one s hands folded, palmas in alternas digitorum vicissitudines super genua connectere (Vid: Apul., Met., 3, p. 129, 34). To fold sheep, stabulare (general term): includere septis (of sheep, Varr., R.R., 2, 5): claudere, with or without textis cratibus (Hor., Epod., 2, 45).