Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Catenatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CATENA'TUS (ἁλυσίδετος). Shackled, fettered, or in chains, like a slave, criminal, or captive. (Flor. iii. 19. 3. Suet. Tib. 64. Hor. Epod. vii. 8.) The word does not imply that the person so confined was chained up, or bound to, another object, which is expressed by alligatus; but merely that he was bound with chains in a manner to impede the freedom of his motions, and prevent an escape by flight. See the illustrations s. CATULUS and COMPEDITUS.