fodiebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fodio, fodere, fodi, fossus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
dig, dig out/up; stab;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...procul hinc multo fructum sudore parantes dura lacertosi fodiebant arva coloni, agmine qui viso fugiunt operisque relinquunt arma..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caudis, qua maxime molli cute volnera accipiunt, fodiebant. Trepidantesque et prope iam in suos consternatos e media acie..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...corporibus et praelongis hastis fluitantem labantemque militem eminus fodiebant; simul e mole, quam eductam in Rhenum rettulimus, Bructerorum..."