confodiunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confodio, confodere, confodi, confossus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stab/run through, wound fatally; pierce, harm; dig up/turn over (land); trench;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...mala uestra circumspicitis, quae uos ab omni parte confodiunt, alia grassantia extrinsecus, alia in uisceribus ipsis ardentia..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...revinctos~ tela, sed implicitos miseraque in peste revinctos confodiunt ac forma necis non altera surgit quam cervos..."Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...facit et transfixo equo tyrannum deturbat, iacentem equites confodiunt; multis frustra in loricam ictibus datis tandem in nudum..."