wedge in, fit/close firmly, tighten; compress, abridge; pack, limit, cramp
Latin word, found 38 times in the texts on Socratos.
Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens 1211: Symplegas artat hinc et hinc vinctas manus
Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 17_18.101.3: … ue in noctem adsedisset, cum hilaris cenasset, genere valitudinis praecipiti arreptus, angina, vix conpressum artatis faucibus spiritum traxit in lucem. Intra paucissimas ergo horas, quam omnibus erat sani ac valentis officiis …
Martial, Epigrammata 12.4.2: Artatus labor est et breve rasit opus.
All forms of arto