transfodio

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

trans-fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3, v. a.,

to thrust or run through , to stab through , transfix , transpierce (class., but not in Cic.): Galli in scrobes delapsi transfodiebantur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 82: deinde fugienti latus transfodisse, Liv. 39, 42, 12: transfosso oculo, Tac. A. 3, 20 fin. : cochlea acu transfossa, Plin. 30, 4, 11, § 31.—In a Greek construction: pectora duro Transfossi ligno, Verg. A. 9, 544.

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