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trans-fīgo , xi, xum, 3, v. a.
I. To thrust or pierce through, to transpierce, transfix a thing or a person (class.; “syn. traicio): sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit,” Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25: “evelli jussit eam, quā erat transfixus, hastam,” Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97: “transfixi pilis,” Caes. B. G. 7, 62: “Q. Fabium gladio per pectus transfigit,” Liv. 2, 46, 4: “stricto gladio simul verbis increpans transfigit puellam,” id. 1, 26, 3: “contrario ictu per parmam transfixus,” id. 2, 6, 9: “latus,” id. 5, 36, 7: “corpus,” id. 21, 8, 11: “transfigitur scutum Pulfioni,” Caes. B. G. 5, 44: “scuta uno ictu pilorum,” id. ib. 1, 25: “unguibus anguem, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 47, 106: transfixo pectore,” Verg. A. 1, 44.—In a Greek construction: “qui hastis corpus transfigi solent,” Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 11; so, “sonipes transfixus pectora ferro,” Luc. 7, 528.—
II. To thrust something through a thing (poet. and very rare): “latos huic hasta per armos Acta tremit duplicatque virum transfixa dolore,” Verg. A. 11, 645: “ora ducis transfixo deformia pilo,” Luc. 9, 138.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.44
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.62
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 26.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 6.9
    • Plautus, Persa, 1.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.44
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.645
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 2.1
    • Lucan, Civil War, 9.138
    • Lucan, Civil War, 7.528
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 36.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 46.4
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.30
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