defigunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defigo, defigere, defixi, defixus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sink/bury/stick/thrust (weapon); fasten, fix, plant, embed; attach/affix;; declare firmly/unalterably; bewitch/enchant/curse (stick pin in wax);; focus (thoughts/eyes); dumbfound, astonish/stupefy, fix w/glance; censure;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...utque dato signo spatia in sua quisque recessit, defigunt tellure hastas et scuta reclinant. tum studio effusae matres..."Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...tectum trabesque extremas quadratas regulas IIII patentes digitos defigunt, quae lateres, qui super musculo struantur, contineant. Ita fastigato..."