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
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..."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..."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..."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..."