Affigo, affigis, pen. prod. affixi, affixum, affigere. To nayle to: to fasten.Cruci affigere.Liu.To crucifie: to set on the crosse.Affigere ad caput literain.Cicer.To set a letter on his forehead with a hoate yrou.Cuspide ad terram affixit.Liu.He fasined him to the ground with his speare.Affigere aliquid animo suo familiatius.Quintil.To sasten or print in minde.Humo affigere particulam diuinæ auræ. Horat. To set his minde on earthly things.Lecto affigere aliquem. Hor. To make him keepe his bedde continnally.Affigere literas pueris. Quint. To make them conne by hart.Oscula affigere. Claud. To kiffe.Terræ affigere tadicem.Virg.To take roote. Affigere per tíanslationem dictum: vt aisigere dulcedinem animis Plin.To roote or print in the minde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
af-fīgo (better adf-), ixi, ixum, 3, v. a. (affixet for affixisset, Sil. 14, 536), to fix or fasten to or upon, to affix, annex, attach to; constr. with ad or dat.I.Lit.: sidera aetherieis adfixa caverneis, Lucr. 4, 392: corpus, id. 4, 1104; 4, 1238: litteram ad caput,
to affix as a brand
, Cic. Rosc. Am. 20 fin.: Minerva, cui pinnarum talaria adfigunt, id. N. D. 3, 23: Prometheus adfixus Caucaso, id. Tusc. 5, 3, 8: aliquem patibulo, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 4, 355: aliquem cuspide ad terram, Liv. 4, 19: aliquem cruci adfigere, id. 28, 37: signa Punicis Adfixa delubris, Hor. C. 3, 5, 19: lecto te adfixit, id. S. 1, 1, 81 (cf. Sen. Ep. 67: senectus me lectulo adfixit): radicem terrae, Verg. G. 2, 318: flammam lateri (turris), id. A. 9, 536 al. —II.Trop., to fix on, imprint or impress on: aliquid animo,
to impress upon the mind
, Quint. 2, 7, 18, and Sen. Ep. 11: litteras pueris,
to imprint on their memory
, Quint. 1, 1, 25.—Hence, adfixus, a, um, P. a.A.Fastened to a person or thing, joined to; constr. alicui or ad rem: jubes eum mihi esse adfixum tamquam magistro, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6: me sibi ille adfixum habebit, id. Fam. 1, 8: nos in exiguā parte terrae adfixi, id. Rep. 1, 17: anus adfixa foribus, Tib. 1, 6, 61: Tarraconensis adfixa Pyrenaeo,
situated close to
, Plin. 3, 2, 6. —Trop., impressed on, fixed to: causa in animo sensuque meo penitus adfixa atque insita, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 53: quae semper adfixa esse videntur ad rem neque ab eā possunt separari, id. Inv. 1, 26 al.—B. In the Latin of the Pandects: adfixa, ōrum, n., the appendages or appurtenances belonging to a possession: domum instructam legavit cum omnibus adfixis,
