defixerat
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;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...latuit terrore Lycaei; hac tunc attonitos facie defixerat hostes. quem simul ac nota formidine bella moventem vidit Aron..."Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...odere tamen visusque reflectunt. Quin idem Minyas operum defixerat error, cum se Sole satus patriis penetralibus infert. filius..."Liber IV
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...iungebat. Haec cum machinationibus immissa in flumen defixerat fistucisque adegerat, non sublicae modo derecte ad perpendiculum, sed prone..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...torque spoliavit, quem respersum cruore collo circumdedit suo. Defixerat pavor cum admiratione Gallos: Romani alacres ab statione obviam..."