effossam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effodio, effodere, effodi, effossus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
dig out, excavate; gouge out;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...parati,undarum raptos auersis fontibus haustus 345quaerere et effossam sitientes lambere terramet, desit si larga Ceres, tunc horrida..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sanguinem iubentes haurire; inuenti quidam sunt mersis in effossam terram capitibus quos sibi ipsos fecisse foueas obruentesque..."