A.gluing, Hp.Art.39, Gal.18(1).456, Thphr.HP5.7.4; soldering, “κ. σιδήρου” Hdt.1.25, Plu.2.156b; “κ. χρυσίου” Thphr. Lap.26; “σωλήνων” POxy.915 (vi A.D.).
II. generally, fixing tight, close fastening, Hp.Art.33; of the cupping-glass, Arist.Rh. 1405b3.
b. closing up of wounds, Heliod. ap. Orib.45.6.2, Gal.11.440, 12.102.
2. Rhet., union of a verse quotation with prose, Hermog.Meth.30.
3. metaph., close friendship, Eun.Hist.p.267 D.
4. Astron., apparent contact of planet with fixed star, Ptol.Alm.8.4 (pl.); of two planets on the same meridian, Vett. Val.115.17.