I.N. cr.), fossum, 3, v. a.
I. To dig through, to pierce through, transfix (class.): “parietes,” Plaut. As. 3, 2, 17: parietem, id. l. l.; Cic. Vatin. 5, 11; Vulg. Matt. 24, 43: “montem,” Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9: “Athone perfosso,” Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112: “thorax perfossus,” Verg. A. 11, 10: “pectus,” Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6: “pectora,” Stat. Th. 9, 522: “spinā argenteā dentes,” to pick, Petr. 33.—Hence,
II. To make by digging through: “fretum,” Liv. 33, 17, 6.