Defigo, defigis, pen. pro. defixi, desixum, defígere. Colum. To sticke in, or fasten in: to tacke or fasten with nailes.Aciem defixere in his vestigijs, in quibus, &c. Ci. They plan. ted their armie in the same places.Terræ defigitur aibos.Virg.A tree is planted in the ground.Tacita mœstitia ita defixit omnium animos, vt. &c. Liui.A still sorrow so astonied all their mindes, that, &c.Defigere animos & intendere.Cic.To fixe and bende their mindes.Defigere audaciam in mentibus arque oculis omnium. Ci. Openly to shewe his desperate follie, in the knowledge and sight of al men.Defigere aliquem colaphis in terram. Plau. To strike to the grounde with buffets.Defigere columnellas in trabibus, Cæs.To fasten.Crucem defigere.Cic.To set vp a gibbet or gallows.Defigere cultrum in corde. Li. To thrust a knife to his hart.Sicam in corpore alicuius.Cic.Omnes suas curas in reip. salute defigÛt. Ci. They fix and set their whole care vpon the salegard of the common weale.Defigi diris deprecationibus nemo non metuit. Plin. Euerie man was afrayde to be cursed.Defigere ensem. Sil. Defigere furta alicuius in oculis populi. Cicero. To declare ones thefrs and robberies, that all men may see them, as it were, set before their eies.In eo mentem, orationémque defigit.Cicer.Hee setteth hys minde and talke vpon that.Ocellos in aliquem defigere.Ouid.Defigere oculos spe & mente in tem aliquam.Cic.To looke vpon with sure hope and purpose to haue it.Defigere oculorum aciem in terram. Pli. To looke sledfastly vpon the grounde.Aliquid intueri. in eóque defixum esse. Cic.Defixerat pauor cum admitatione Gallos, Liui.Feare and wonder sltake them to the hearts.Plantam defigere in hortis.Ouid.To plant or set.Defigere in animis aliquam sententiam iudicum.Cic. Quã populi seimo in animis vestris iã antè defixerat. Whiche the common brute of the people had planted and fixed in your mindes before.Crabrones spicula defigunt.Ouid.Hornets thruste in their stings.
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dē-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to fasten down or in; and with especial reference to the terminus, to drive, fix, or fasten into (class.). —I.Lit.: in campo Martio crucem ad civium supplicium defigi et constitui jubes, Cic. Rab. perd. 4; so, tigna machinationibus immissa in flumen, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4: sudes sub aqua, id. ib. 5, 18, 3: asseres in terra defigebantur, id. B. C. 2, 2; Liv. 44, 5: verutum in balteo, Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 7: sicam in consulis corpore,
to thrust
, Cic. Cat. 1, 6; cf.: cultrum in corde, Liv. 1, 58 fin.: tellure hastas, Verg. A. 12, 130; cf. id. ib. 6, 652: gladium superne jugulo, Liv. 1, 25; cf. Ov. M. 13, 436 al.: cruci defiguntur, Varr. ap. Non. 221, 13: arborem penitus terrae, Verg. G. 2, 290: te hodie, si prehendero, defigam in terram colaphis, Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 22 (for which, shortly after, cruci affigere): morsus in aurem, Plin. 8, 12, 12, 34: clavum percussum malleo in cerebrum, Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; Eccles. 12, 11. —B.Meton. (Causa pro effectu.) To fix, fasten, render immovable (rare): defixa caelo sidera, Hor. Epod. 17, 5; cf. Ov. M. 11, 76: defixere aciem in his vestigiis,
have fixed them motionless
, Tac. Agr. 34; cf.: defixi et Neronem intuentes, id. A. 13, 16: sedeo defixus, Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1: me defixum in ora, etc., Prop. 1, 8, 15.—C. Esp. in phrase, manus defigere, to strike hands, i. e., to close a contract as surety, to pledge one's person, Vulg. Prov. 6, 1; 22, 26.—II.Trop.A. In gen., to fix, fasten; to turn intently in any direction: virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus, Cic. Phil. 4, 5: oculos in vultu regis, Curt. 7, 8: iratos oculos in te, Ov. Am. 2, 18, 15: in alicujus possessiones oculos defigere, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10: oculos defigere in terram, Quint. 11, 3, 158; Curt. 9, 3.—Absol.: oculos,
to let fall, cast down
, Tac. A. 3, 1: Aeneas defixus lumina, Verg. A. 6, 156: animos in ea, quae perspicua sunt, Cic. Ac. 2, 15: disputare non vaganti oratione, sed defixa in una republica, id. Rep. 1, 11; cf.: in eo mentem orationemque defigit, id. de Or. 3, 8, 31: omnes suas curas in reip. salute, id. Phil. 14, 5, 13; id. Verr. 1, 3; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.—B. In partic. 1.To strike motionless, sc. with astonishment, etc.; to stupefy, astound, astonish (not freq. till after the Aug. per.): utraque simul objecta res oculis animisque immobiles parumper eos defixit, Liv. 21, 33; so, aliquem, id. 3, 47; 6, 40 al.: silentium triste ita defixit omnium animos, ut, etc., Liv. 1, 29.—In the part. perf.: dum stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno, Verg. A. 1, 495; 6, 156; 7, 249; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 14; Liv. 8, 7; Tac. A. 1, 68; 13, 5 et saep.—2. Religious t. t. a.To declare fixedly, firmly, unalterably: QVAE AVGVR VITIOSA, DIRA DEFIXERIT, IRRITA SVNTO, Cic. Leg. 2, 8 fin.—b. (Because, in making imprecations, the waxen image of him for whom destruction was to be prepared, or his name written in wax, was stuck through with a needle; cf. Ov. H. 6, 91 sq., and Voss upon Verg. E. 8, 80.) To bewitch, enchant; to curse any thing: caput alicujus dira imprecatione, Sen. Ben. 6, 35: defigi imprecationibus, Plin. 28, 2, 4, 19: nomina cerā, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; cf.: DEFIXA NOMINA, Inscr. Orell. 3726: regis animum Iolchiacis votis, Verg. Cir. 376.—3.To censure, reprove a thing: culpam, Pers. 5, 16.