figens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →figo, figere, fixi, fixus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
fasten, fix; pierce, transfix; establish;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...cognato in funere diraThessalis incubuit membris atque oscula figens 565truncauitque caput conpressaque dentibus oralaxauit siccoque haerentem gutture linguampraemordens..." - D
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...municipes Iouis aduexisse lagonas? hic tamen ancipiti figens uestigia planta uictum illa mercede parat, brumamque famemque illa reste..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...confixam suis strauit sagittis atque natorum indolem Lernaea figens tela furibunda manu; ter parricida factus ignouit tamen sibi..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fletumque cruori miscuit et gelidis in vultibus oscula figens "Pyrame," clamavit, "quis te mihi casus ademit? Pyrame, responde..."