transverbero

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

trans-verbĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

to strike or beat through , to thrust through , pierce through , transfix : praeclara bestia venabulo transverberatur, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3: abiete pectus, Verg. A. 11, 667: clipei aera (hasta), id. ib. 10, 336: in utrumque latus transverberatus, Tac. H. 1, 42: aëra volitando, Ap. Deo Socr. p. 46, 37.

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