figebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →figo, figere, fixi, fixus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
fasten, fix; pierce, transfix; establish;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...regione fluminis Nili propugnabant: diversis enim telis nostri figebantur, adversi ex vallo castrorum, aversi ex flumine..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nisi ramisque se occultantes admotis sagittariis per ludibrium figebantur, alios prorutae arbores adflixere. Magna ea victoria neque cruenta..."