draw in close, gather up; draw tight
Latin word, found 18 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.216: et substricta gerens Sicyonius ilia Ladon,
Horace, Sermones 2.5.95: oppositis umeris; aurem substringe loquaci.
Tacitus, Germania 38.2: discreti, quamquam in commune Suebi vocentur. insigne gentis obliquare crinem nodoque substringere: sic Suebi a ceteris Germanis, sic Sueborum ingenui a servis separantur.
All forms of substringo