Meaning of nexus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound.
   declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect
2. bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged.
   declension-1, declension-2, form-of, participle, passive, perfect
3. debtors who, having failed to cover the security they owed to their creditor, were enslaved to them as bondsmen (the practice was abolished in 326 BC, see quotes)
   Ancient-Rome, declension-1, declension-2, form-of, masculine, noun-from-verb, participle, passive, perfect

Examples

“Coordinate term: nexum”

“fusis Auruncis, uictor tot intra paucos dies bellis Romanus promissa consulis fidemque senatus exspectabat, cum Appius et insita superbia animo et ut collegae uanam faceret fidem, quam asperrime poterat ius de creditis pecuniis dicere. Deinceps et qui ante nexi fuerant creditoribus tradebantur et nectebantur alii.”

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“Eo anno plebi Romanae uelut aliud initium libertatis factum est quod necti desierunt; mutatum autem ius ob unius feneratoris simul libidinem, simul crudelitatem insignem. L. Papirius is fuit, cui cum se C. Publilius ob aes alienum paternum nexum dedisset […] iussique consules ferre ad populum […] pecuniae creditae bona debitoris, non corpus obnoxium esset. Ita nexi soluti, cautumque in posterum ne necterentur.”

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“Propter quae dum contemni se putat, saevitia grassatur nec, ut pater, carcerem nexis, sed caedibus civitatem replet; ob quae non contemptior omnibus quam invisior fuit.”

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