defixus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defixus, defixa, defixum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
motionless, still;
nom. sg. (m.) - 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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...quae cum ex ipso angulo, in quo ego defixus sum, complures multorum iam annorum ruina obrutos effoderit..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...aquis et tandem virgine cessit. Absyrtus visu maeret defixus acerbo: heu quid agat? qua vi portus et prima..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...putet. perstrinxerat horror ipsum etiam et maesta stabat defixus in ira. non ita Tyrrhenus stupet Ionius magis..."
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ille tot ignoti socias gregis haeret in una defixus sentitque ducem dominamque catervae. 'si dea, si magni decus..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ambire laborant exuuiae, Calydonis honos. stupet omine tanto defixus senior, diuina oracula Phoebi agnoscens monitusque datos uocalibus antris..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...vivis aspicies.' dixit, pressoque obmutuit ore. Aeneas maesto defixus lumina vultu ingreditur linquens antrum, caecosque volutat eventus animo..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Dardanio Aeneae miranda videntur, dum stupet, obtutuque haeret defixus in uno, regina ad templum, forma pulcherrima Dido, incessit..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...eius intellecta est. reliquo noctis modo per silentium defixus, saepius pavore exsurgens et mentis inops lucem opperiebatur tamquam..."
