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per-fŏro , āvi, ātum, 1 (in tmesi:
I.perque forare,Lucr. 5, 126, 8), v. a., to bore through, pierce through, perforate.
I. Lit. (class.; syn. terebro): navem, Cic. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 47: “perforare ac demergere triremem, Auct. B. Alex. 25: lacernam lanceā,Vell. 2, 80, 3: “duo pectora uno ictu,Ov. M. 12, 377: “ense latus,id. Tr. 3, 9, 26: “gladio latus,Vulg. Judith, 13, 28: “Stabianum,to cut through for the sake of a prospect, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1: “duo lumina perforata,perforated, made by boring, id. N. D. 3, 4, 9: “viae ad oculos a sede animae,id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: “berulli perforati,Plin. 37, 5, 20, § 78.—In mal. part., Auct. Priap. 78.—Fig.: “habebit sinum facilem, non perforatum, ex quo multa exeant et nihil excidat,Sen. Dial. 6, 23, 5.—
II. Transf., to pierce through, penetrate (poet.): “sol perforat culmina radiis totis,Stat. S. 1, 5, 46.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.1.1
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.377
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.126
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.78
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.4
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.20
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 6.47
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.9
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.5
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