pierce

to bore, pierce, make a hole, penetrate

( percussum)

to strike hard, pierce, transfix / shock.

con-fīgo, xi, xum, 3 ( part. perf.: confictus sagittis, Scaur. ap. Diom. p. 373; Veg. Art. Vet. 2, 11, 4; cf. figo init.), v. a.

To join (by pressing), to fasten together (rare):

sublaminas inter sese,

Cato, R. R. 21, 3:

transtra clavis ferreis,

to nail together, Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

tabulam aculeis,

Col. 7, 3, 5:

transversaria tigna,

Vitr. 10, 6, 3; 10, 21.—

To pierce through, to transfix.

Prop., esp. with a weapon:

filios suos sagittis,

Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89:

capras sagittis,

id. N. D. 2, 50, 126:

cohors confixa multitudine sagittarum,

Suet. Caes. 68; Nep. Dat. 9, 5:

pereunt Hypanisque Dymasque, Confixi a sociis,

Verg. A. 2, 429; cf. id. ib. 3, 45; Suet. Dom. 3: confixum facere, Lucil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 255:

aliquem cuspide,

Luc. 3, 621; cf. Ov. P. 2, 7, 15.—Prov.: cornicum oculos; v. cornix.—

Trop.: meminerant, ejus sententiis confixum Antonium, i. e. rendered powerless or inactive, Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 18: ubi confixus desides, Afran. ap. Non. p. 89, 33:

ducentis confixus senati consultis,

Cic. Har. Resp. 5, 8.

con-fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3, to dig thoroughly, dig round about, to prepare by digging (orig. pertaining to agriculture).

Prop.:

terram minute,

Cato, R. R. 129:

jugera,

Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 2:

hortum,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 66: loca palustria, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 141, 31:

vineta,

Col. 4, 5:

salices,

Plin. 17, 20, 32, § 142.—

Transf., to strike down by stabbing, to pierce, stab, transfix:

constituere (Ciceronem) de improviso domi suae confodere,

Sall. C. 28, 1:

ibique pugnans confoditur,

id. ib. 60, 7; Nep. Pelop. 5, 4; Liv. 24, 7, 5; Suet. Caes. 81; 82; id. Aug. 27; 51; id. Calig. 28; 59; id. Claud. 26; id. Tit. 6; Verg. A. 9, 445; Ov. M. 5, 176; Luc. 3, 744; Curt. 3, 11, 11; 4, 16, 23; Vell. 2, 22, 3; Val. Fl. 6, 418; Cic. Sull. 11, 33 dub. —

Trop. (rare; not ante-Aug.): tot judiciis confossi, praedamnatique, = pierced through, Liv. 5, 11, 12:

mala quae vos ab omni parte confodiunt,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 27, 6:

cujus causa, quamquam gravissimis criminibus erat confossa,

i. e. seriously damaged, Val. Max. 8, 1, abs. 11: quaedam (scripta) notis confodias, you strike or cross out, Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 13.—Hence, confos-sus, a, um, P. a., pierced through, full of holes:

te faciam Confossiorem soricina nenia,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 48.

fīgo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic part. perf. ficta, Lucr. 3, 4; Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 4), v. a. [Gr. sphing-ô, to bind fast; sphigmos, phimos, muzzle; cf. fīlum, for figlum. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 186; Germ. dick. dicht; Engl. thick. etc., Corss. Krit. Nachtr. p. 233], to fix, fasten, drive or thrust in, attach, affix (class.; cf.: pango, configo, defigo).

Lit., constr. aliquid, aliquid in with abl. ( poet. also in with acc., or aliquid with abl. only):

imbrices medias clavulis,

Cato, R. R. 21, 3:

palum in parietem,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4:

mucrones in cive an in hoste,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6:

tabulam decreti Caesaris aut beneficii,

to post up, id. ib. 1, 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 12, 5 fin.:

Antonius accepta grandi pecunia fixit legem a dictatore comitiis latam,

i. e. posted it up as having been carried, id. Att. 14, 12, 1; cf.:

adsentiri, ne qua tabula ullius decreti Caesaris figeretur,

id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

fixit leges pretio atque refixit,

Verg. A. 6, 622:

quique aera legum vetustate delapsa, noscerent figerentque,

Tac. H. 4, 40:

nec verba minacia aere fixo legebantur,

Ov. M. 1, 91:

quam damnatis crucem servis fixeras,

hadst fixed in the ground, erected, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 12:

feraces plantas humo,

to plant, set, Verg. G. 4, 115:

clavos verticibus,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 5:

cuneos,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 109 (dub.):

veribus trementia (frusta),

to fix on spits, Verg. A. 1, 212:

spicula pectore,

Prop. 2, 13, 2 (3, 4, 2 M.);

for which: harundo in vertice fixa,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 7:

cristas vertice,

Verg. A. 10, 701:

fumantes taedas sub pectore,

id. ib. 7, 457:

notas in collo dente,

to impress, Tib. 1, 8, 38:

virus in venas per vulnera,

injects, Cic. Arat. 432: vestigia, plants his steps, i. e. moves on, Verg. A. 6, 159:

arma quae fixa in parietibus fuerant,

fastened up, hung up, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; cf.:

scuta sublime fixa,

id. ib. 2, 31, 67:

arma ad postem Herculis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5:

arma thalamo,

Verg. A. 4, 495:

arma Troïa hic,

id. ib. 1, 248:

clipeum postibus,

id. ib. 3, 287:

dona Laurenti Divo,

id. ib. 12, 768: ID AES AD STATVAM LORICATAM DIVI IVLII, S. C. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 13:

qui spolia ex hoste fixa domi haberent,

Liv. 23, 23, 6; 38, 43, 11:

navalem coronam fastigio Palatinae domus,

Suet. Claud. 17:

luteum opus celsā sub trabe (hirundo),

Ov. F. 1, 158: ipse summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.):

aliquem cruci,

nail, Quint. 7, 1, 30; Suet. Dom. 10:

corpus lacerum in crucem (al. cruce),

Just. 21, 4 fin.:

figit in virgine vultus,

fixes, Verg. A. 12, 70:

oculos solo,

id. ib. 1, 482:

oculos in terram,

Sen. Ep. 11: in poet. transf.:

oculos horrenda in virgine fixus,

Verg. A. 11, 507 (cf.:

defixus lumina vultu,

id. ib. 6, 156; Tac. A. 3, 1):

Caesar in silentium fixus,

Tac. A. 6, 50 (56):

obstipo capite et figentes lumine terram,

Pers. 3, 80:

foribus miser oscula figit,

kisses, Lucr. 4, 1179:

oscula dulcia,

Verg. A. 1, 687:

sedem Cumis,

to fix his abode, Juv. 3, 2:

domos,

Tac. A. 13, 54.—

Transf., to fix by piercing through, to transfix, pierce (cf. configo, II.):

hunc intorto figit telo,

Verg. A. 10, 382:

hunc jaculo acuto,

Ov. M. 10, 131: hostes telis, Auct. B. Alex. 30 fin.:

fixisse puellas gestit (Cupido),

Tib. 2, 1, 71:

cervos,

Verg. E. 2, 29:

dammas,

id. G. 1, 308; id. A. 5, 515; Sil. 1, 305:

cutem (clavi),

Sen. Prov. 3:

olli per galeam fixo stetit hasta cerebro,

Verg. A. 12, 537:

aprum,

Juv. 1, 23:

figar a sagitta,

Ov. H. 16, 278:

vulnus,

to inflict, Mart. 1, 61, 4.

Trop.

To fix, fasten, direct.

With in and abl.: ego omnia mea studia, omnem operam, curam, industriam, cogitationem, [p. 749] mentem denique omnem in Milonis consulatu fixi et locavi, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 3.—

With in and acc. (rare):

fixus in silentium,

Tac. A. 6, 50.—

In other constructions:

beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53:

nostras intra te fige querelas,

Juv. 9, 94:

penitus hoc se malum fixit,

Sen. Tranq. 15:

nequitiae fige modum tuae,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 2. —

(Acc. to I. B.) Of speech, to sting; taunt, rally a person:

aliquem maledictis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 93:

adversarios,

id. Or. 26, 89.—Hence, fixus, a, um, P. a., fixed, fast, immovable.

Lit. (very rare):

illud maneat et fixum sit,

Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

inque tuis nunc Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,

i. e. firmly fixed in, Lucr. 3, 4; cf.

in the foll.: astra,

the fixed stars, Manil. 2, 35; so,

flammae,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 15.— Far more freq.,

Trop.:

vestigia (integritatis) non pressa leviter, sed fixa ad memoriam illius provinciae sempiternam,

Cic. Sest. 5, 13:

non ita fixum, ut convelli non liceret,

id. Clu. 45, 126: fixum et statutum, id. Mur., 30, 62; cf.:

consilium fixum,

id. Att. 6, 14, 2:

animo fixum immotumque sedere, ne, etc.,

Verg. A, 4, 15: fixum est, with a subj.-clause, it is fixed, determined, Sil. 2, 364; 3, 114:

decretum stabile, fixum, ratum,

Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 27; cf.:

ratum, fixum, firmum,

permanent, id. ib. 2, 46, 141:

illud fixum in animis vestris tenetote,

fixed, impressed, id. Balb. 28, 64: quae perpetuo animo meo fixa manebunt, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 3.— Adv.: fixe, fixedly (late Lat.):

ubi tenacius habitabit et fixius,

Aug. Ep. 6 fin.

fŏdĭco, no perf., ātum, āre, v. a. [fodio], to dig, to pierce (rare but class.).

Lit.: mercemur servum, qui dictet nomina, laevum Qui fodicet latus et cogat dextram Porrigere, to dig or jog in the side, * Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 51 (for which fodit, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 17):

lateribus fodicatis,

Amm. 26, 10, p. 98 Bip.—

Trop.:

animum fodicant, bona distimulant,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30: cf.: stimulus ego nunc sum tibi;

fodico corculum,

id. Cas. 2, 6, 9:

non est in nostra potestate fodicantibus iis rebus, quas malas esse opinemur, dissimulatio vel oblivio,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35.

fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3 (ante-class. form of the inf. praes. pass. fodiri, Cato, R. R. 2, 4; Col. 11, 2, 35, but not in Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21, where the correct read. is exfodivi.— Also acc. to the first conj.: Illyrii restant sicis sibinisque fodantes, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 336 Müll.; cf.: fodare fodere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 84, 7 Müll.), v. n. and a. [Sanscr. root badh-, to dig, ava-bādha, dug out; Gr. bathos, bathus, benthos, abussos, etc., bothros, pit; hence, fossa, fundus (for fudnus); cf. Anglo-Sax. bodom; Engl. bottom; Germ. Boden, etc.; cf. Fick, Vergl. Wörterb. p. 131; Grimm, Deutsch. Wörterb. s. v. Boden], to dig, dig up, dig out (class.).—

Lit.:

numquam domum revertor, quin te in fundo conspicer Fodere aut arare,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 17; cf.: fodit;

invenit auri aliquantum,

Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; and id. de Or. 2, 41, 174:

vineas novellas fodere aut arare et postea occare,

Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1; cf.:

ut hortum fodiat,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 59:

hortum,

Cato, R. R. 2, 4:

arva,

Ov. M. 11, 33:

solum,

Plin. 19, 6, 32:

vites,

Quint. 9, 4, 5:

murum,

to undermine, Ov. M. 11, 535; but, vallum, to dig out the earth needed for it, Tac. A. 11, 18:

puteum ferramentis,

to dig, Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 19; so,

puteos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

scrobes, trium in altitudinem pedum,

id. B. G. 7, 73, 5:

fundamenta,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 15:

cubilia (talpae),

Verg. G. 1, 183:

argentum etiam incolae fodiunt,

Liv. 28, 3, 3:

gypsum e terra,

Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 182:

oculos,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21; cf.

lumina,

Ov. A. A. 1, 339:

terram gramineam de cespite,

Verg. Cul. 391.—

Transf., to prick, pierce, wound, thrust, stab (class.):

at ego te pendentem fodiam stimulis triginta dies,

to prick, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 48:

quia non latus fodi (cultro),

id. Aul. 3, 2, 4; so,

equi armos calcaribus,

Verg. A. 6, 881:

guttura cultro,

Ov. M. 7, 315:

ora hastis,

Liv. 8, 10, 6:

aversos (elephantos) sub caudis, qua maxime molli cute vulnera accipiunt,

id. 21, 55:

multos pugionibus,

Tac. H. 4, 29:

Sarmatam levi gladio,

id. ib. 1, 79:

ora,

id. A. 2, 21; id. Agr. 36:

adversa ora resistentium,

Curt. 4, 15: La. Dic jussisse te. Ph. Noli fodere:

jussi,

don't punch me in the side, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 17 (cf. fodicare).— Poet.:

Ausonius mersis celer fodit aequora remis,

digs through, ploughs through, Sil. 14, 359:

aquas (ungula),

Ov. F. 3, 456.—In mal. part., Mart. 7, 102; Auct. Priap. 53.—

Trop., to goad, sting, disturb:

num exspectas, dum te stimulis fodiam?

Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86; cf.:

cor stimulo foditur,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 39:

pungit dolor, vel fodiat sane,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 33:

pectus in iras,

to excite, stir, Sil. 5, 159.

fŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [root bhar-, Zend. bar-, cut, bore; Gr. phar-, pharos, plough; cf. pharanx, pharunx; Germ. bohren; Angl.-Sax. borian; Engl. bore], to bore, pierce (mostly post-Aug. and very rare).

Lit.:

forata arbos,

Col. 5, 10, 20:

bene foratas habere aures,

Macr. S. 7, 3; Cels. 7, 29; Sid. Ep. 9, 13.—Comically:

o carnificum cribrum, quod credo fore: Ita te forabunt patibulatum per vias Stimulis,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 53.—

Trop.: forati animi, full of holes, i. e. that retain nothing, Sen. Brev. Vit. 10.

fosso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [fodio], to dig, pierce (ante-and post-class.): corpora telis, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 100 (Ann. v. 569 ed. Vahl.).—Hence,

fossātum, i, n., a ditch, fosse, Pall. Sept. 13; Capitol. Gord. 28; Veg. Mil. 4, 16.—

fossātus, i, m., a boundary, Auct. Rei Agr. p. 254 and 267 Goes.

inter-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut asunder, cut up, cut to pieces, divide, pierce, cut through.

Lit.:

harundinetum,

to thin out by cutting, Col. 4, 32, 4:

venas,

Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 174:

radices,

id. 18, 19, 49, 2, § 177:

olivas acuto calamo,

Pall. Nov. 22, 3:

lacus, interciso monte, in Nar defluit,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5; cf.:

an Isthmos intercidi possit,

Quint. 8, 3, 46:

aedis,

Dig. 9, 2, 49:

flammas ignis,

Vulg. Psa. 28, 7:

pontem,

to cut down, Liv. 36, 6.—

Esp., of accounts, to mutilate, falsify:

commentarios,

Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 4:

rationes dominicas,

Dig. 11, 3, 1, § 5. —

Transf., to part, divide, cut up, mangle, mutilate, destroy:

sententias,

to pervert in reading, Gell. 13, 30, 9:

lux intercisa,

Stat. Th. 2, 184:

jugum mediocri valle a castris intercisum,

separated, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: dies intercisi, half-holidays: intercisi dies sunt, per quos mane et vesperi est nefas;

medio tempore, inter hostiam caesam et exta porrecta, fas: a quo quod fas tum intercedit: aut eo est intercisum nefas, intercisum,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 31 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 16; Ov. F. 1, 49. — Hence, intercīsē, adv., piecemeal, interruptedly, confusedly, Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24; Gell. 11, 2, 5:

dictum,

syncopated, id. 15, 3, 4.

inter-cĭdo, ĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall between.

Lit.:

ita in arto stipatae erant naves ut vix ullum telum in mari vanum intercideret,

Liv. 26, 39; 21, 8; 3, 10, 6.—

Transf.

To occur meanwhile, to happen:

si quae interciderunt, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3. —

To fall to the ground, go to ruin, be lost, perish: pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant, Poët. ap. Cic. Deiot. 9, 25:

intercidunt ova,

Plin. 9, 51, 74, § 163:

credo, quia nulla gesta res insignem fecerit consulatum, memoriā intercidisse,

Liv. 2, 8, 5:

utrum pejorem vocas, apud quem gratia beneficii intercidit, an apud quem etiam memoria?

Sen. Ben. 3, 1:

augur erat: nomen longis intercidit annis,

Ov. F. 2, 433:

sive (opera) exstant, sive intercidere,

Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53:

haec sequenti tempore interciderunt,

Quint. 1, 5, 52:

cum verba intercidant invalescantque temporibus,

fall into disuse, become obsolete, id. 10, 2, 13:

quod si interciderit tibi nunc aliquid (= excidit e memoria),

something escapes you, you have forgotten something, Hor. S. 2, 4, 6.

pĕnē̆tro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [root pa- of pasco; v. penates].

To put, place, or set any thing into any thing (ante- and post-class.; v. Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 109).

Lit.:

penetrare pedem intra aedes,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 64; 2, 3, 49: quo illic homo foras se penetrat ex aedibus? to betake one's self, go in any direction, id. Trin. 2, 2, 1:

me ad pluris penetravi,

id. ib. v. 14:

se in fugam,

to take to flight, id. Am. 1, 1, 94:

in eam (specum) me penetro et recondo,

Gell. 5, 14, 18.— To enter, penetrate:

ea intra pectus se penetravit potio,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 23.—In the same sense, mid.:

quae penetrata queunt sensum progignere acerbum,

having entered, having penetrated, Lucr. 4, 670; 1246.—

Trop.:

Labeo Antistius in grammaticam sese atque dialecticam litterasque antiquiores altioresque penetraverat,

had penetrated into, Gell. 13, 10, 1.—

Aliquid, to pierce into any thing; to enter, penetrate any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit., Lucr. 4, 894:

(semen) penetrare locos nequit,

id. 4, 1246:

vox aures penetrat,

id. 4, 613:

hominem cum vini vis penetravit Acris,

id. 3, 476:

Illyricos sinus,

Verg. A. 1, 243:

nave Aegyptum,

Suet. Caes. 52:

mediae cryptam Suburrae,

Juv. 5, 106. — Pass.:

ut (India) penitus nequeat penetrari,

Lucr. 2, 539:

penetratae cum victoriā Media, Albania, etc.,

Vell. 2, 40, 1:

penetrata limina montis,

Stat. S. 4, 6, 104:

iter L. Lucullo penetratum,

Tac. A. 15, 27.—

Trop.:

id Tiberii animum altius penetravit,

Tac. A. 1, 69; cf. id. ib. 3, 4.—With subject-clause:

tum penetrabat eos, posse haec, etc.,

it entered their thoughts, it occurred to them, Lucr. 5, 1262.—

Neutr., to enter, penetrate into any place or thing, betake one's self (class.; cf.: pervado, permano).

Lit.:

in palaestram,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 32:

sub terras,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

ad os Pelusii,

Curt. 4, 1, 29:

in ipsum portum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96:

in castra hostium,

Liv. 2, 12, 3:

in artissimas fauces,

Curt. 5, 3, 17:

ad urbes,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32:

per angustias,

id. Tusc. 1, 20, 45:

intra vallum,

Liv. 39, 31:

in urbem,

id. 2, 53:

cum eo penetrasset,

thus far, Nep. Chabr. 4:

astra per caelum penetrantia,

Cic. Univ. 9:

penetrat vox ad aures,

Ov. M. 12, 42:

usque ad nares,

Cels. 7, 7.— Impers. pass.:

in eam speluncam penetratum cum signis est,

Liv. 10, 1.—

Trop.:

Romuli animus haec ipsa in templa penetravit,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

hominum ratio in caelum usque penetravit,

id. N. D. 2, 61, 163:

nulla res magis penetrat in animos,

id. Brut. 38, 142:

penetrare ad sensum judicis opinionemque,

id. Part. 36:

quo non ars penetrat?

Ov. A. A. 3, 291:

in provincias quoque grammatica penetraverat,

Suet. Gram. 3.