offigo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

offīgo (obf-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. [ob-figo],

to drive in , fix in , fasten (ante- and postclass.): furcas circum offigito, Cato R. R. 48, 2; Lex Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 1: ita densos offigunt implicantque ramos, Liv. 33, 5, 10 Drak. N. cr. : in crucem currere ... ut offigantur bis pedes, bis bracchia, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 13: manum alicujus ad ostii tabulam grandi clavo, Ap. Met. 4, 10, 12.

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