confixis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →configo, configere, confixi, confixus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fasten/nail together, construct; set/cover with studs/points; drive in (nails);; pierce through, transfix; strike down, pierce with a weapon;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pectore numenet uiuam magnae speciem Virtutis adorant;telaque confixis certant euellere membris, 255exornantque deos ac nudum pectore Martemarmis..."Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...fecissent, priusquam pervenirent ad eum, quem aggredi volebant, confixi conciderunt. Hic tamen tam callidus vir extremo tempore captus..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ipso, moenibus in patriis atque inter tuta domorum confixi exspirant animas. pars claudere portas, nec sociis aperire viam..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erant, superque ipsas nouem et triginta elephanti pilis confixi. hoc quoque proelio ad duodecim milia hominum dicuntur caesa..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...pondere ac fragore provolvunt. pars subeuntium obruti, pars confixi et exangues aut laceri: cum augeret stragem trepidatio eoque..."