To thrust: to sticke in: to shoote in: to fasten to: to hang, or fasten on a wall: to driue or fasten in the earth. To strike: to set: to plant. Palum humi sixit. Colum. Hee did sticke, driue, or fasten a stake in the ground. Figat humo plantas. Virg. He doth set plants in the earth. Figere in poste. Cic. Amicitijs parcere, & aduersatios figere. Cice. To fauour hys friendes, to hurt or taunt his enimies. Culpide fixit apros. Ouid. Hee killed boores with shooting, with his dart and speare. Figere carnes verubus. Virg. To put flesh on the spitte. Figere ceruos, Vide CERVVS. Gradus figere. Val. Flac. To stay: to stande stil. Figere imbrices clauulis. Cato. To fasten tyles with pinnes or nailes. Mucrones figere in aliquo. Cic. To thrust a sworde in one. In collo figere dente notas. Tibul. To bite: to leaue the print of his teeth in ones necke. Figere palum in parietem. Plaut. To fasten a stake in. Pedem. Virg. He stayeth and standeth still: or he goeth not. Figebantur nostri diuersis telis. Hirtius. Our men were striken, or hit with sundrie dartes. Figere, id est. affigere. Figere ad statuam. Plin. iun. To fasten or sette vppe by an image. Figere legem. Cic. To hang or set vp vpon a wall a law grauen in brasen tables. Senatusconsultum ære publico figere. Tacit. To set vp a detree of the Senate on a wall, that all men may see it. Figere tabulas, Idem quod Figere leges. Cic. Figere aliquem maledictis, per translationem. Cicero. To raile or speake spitefully against one. Arcana murmura figit auribus. Stat. He whispereth softly in their eare. Figere mentem in re aliqua. Cic. To set ones cogitation or minde vpon a thing. Nequitiæ fige modum tuæ. Hor. Make some end or measure of thy naughtinesse. Oculos figis in virgine. Ouid. Thou lookest stedfastly vppon. Oscula sigere. Virg. To kisse. Tacitus nostras intra re fige querelas. Iuuen. Reepe secrete my complaints, and tel them to no man. Vultus fixit in imagine diuæ. Ouid. He looked vpon. Fixus. Participium. Plaut. Firme: fast: steadie: coustant: sure: that is not lightly chaunged: certaine. Fixus & fundatus Reipub. status. Cic. Firme. Ad parietem sunt fixa clauis serreis. Plaut. Fastened. Arma parietibus fixa. Cic. Armoure hanged vp bythe walles. Dolor fixus medullis. Sen. Sorrow at the heart. Si hæc mala fixa sunt. Cic. If these mischiefs be certaine and cannot be eschewed. Saxis asperis fixus aliquis. Cic. Sententia fixa menti. Vale. Flac. A sentence that one is resolned on, or determined. Fixum, per translationem, pro Firmato: vnde fixum consilium. Cic. A firme and determinate purpose.

I. Lit., constr. aliquid, aliquid in with abl. (poet. also in with acc., or aliquid with abl. only): imbrices medias clavulis, Cato, R. R. 21, 3: palum in parietem, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4: mucrones in cive an in hoste, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6: tabulam decreti Caesaris aut beneficii, to post up, id. ib. 1, 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 12, 5 fin.: Antonius accepta grandi pecunia fixit legem a dictatore comitiis latam, i. e. posted it up as having been carried, id. Att. 14, 12, 1; cf.: adsentiri, ne qua tabula ullius decreti Caesaris figeretur, id. Phil. 1, 1, 3: fixit leges pretio atque refixit, Verg. A. 6, 622: quique aera legum vetustate delapsa, noscerent figerentque, Tac. H. 4, 40: nec verba minacia aere fixo legebantur, Ov. M. 1, 91: quam damnatis crucem servis fixeras, hadst fixed in the ground, erected, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, 12: feraces plantas humo, to plant, set, Verg. G. 4, 115: clavos verticibus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 5: cuneos, Plin. 17, 14, 24, 109 (dub.): veribus trementia (frusta), to fix on spits, Verg. A. 1, 212: spicula pectore, Prop. 2, 13, 2 (3, 4, 2 M.); for which: harundo in vertice fixa, Hor. S. 1, 8, 7: cristas vertice, Verg. A. 10, 701: fumantes taedas sub pectore, id. ib. 7, 457: notas in collo dente, to impress, Tib. 1, 8, 38: virus in venas per vulnera, injects, Cic. Arat. 432: vestigia, plants his steps, i. e. moves on, Verg. A. 6, 159: arma quae fixa in parietibus fuerant, fastened up, hung up, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; cf.: scuta sublime fixa, id. ib. 2, 31, 67: arma ad postem Herculis, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5: arma thalamo, Verg. A. 4, 495: arma Troïa hic, id. ib. 1, 248: clipeum postibus, id. ib. 3, 287: dona Laurenti Divo, id. ib. 12, 768: ID AES AD STATVAM LORICATAM DIVI IVLII, S. C. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 13: qui spolia ex hoste fixa domi haberent, Liv. 23, 23, 6; 38, 43, 11: navalem coronam fastigio Palatinae domus, Suet. Claud. 17: luteum opus celsā sub trabe (hirundo), Ov. F. 1, 158: ipse summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.): aliquem cruci, nail, Quint. 7, 1, 30; Suet. Dom. 10: corpus lacerum in crucem (al. cruce), Just. 21, 4 fin.: figit in virgine vultus, fixes, Verg. A. 12, 70: oculos solo, id. ib. 1, 482: oculos in terram, Sen. Ep. 11: in poet. transf.: oculos horrenda in virgine fixus, Verg. A. 11, 507 (cf.: defixus lumina vultu, id. ib. 6, 156; Tac. A. 3, 1): Caesar in silentium fixus, Tac. A. 6, 50 (56): obstipo capite et figentes lumine terram, Pers. 3, 80: foribus miser oscula figit, kisses, Lucr. 4, 1179: oscula dulcia, Verg. A. 1, 687: sedem Cumis, to fix his abode, Juv. 3, 2: domos, Tac. A. 13, 54.—

B. Transf., to fix by piercing through, to transfix, pierce (cf. configo, II.): hunc intorto figit telo, Verg. A. 10, 382: hunc jaculo acuto, Ov. M. 10, 131: hostes telis, Auct. B. Alex. 30 fin.: fixisse puellas gestit (Cupido), Tib. 2, 1, 71: cervos, Verg. E. 2, 29: dammas, id. G. 1, 308; id. A. 5, 515; Sil. 1, 305: cutem (clavi), Sen. Prov. 3: olli per galeam fixo stetit hasta cerebro, Verg. A. 12, 537: aprum, Juv. 1, 23: figar a sagitta, Ov. H. 16, 278: vulnus, to inflict, Mart. 1, 61, 4.

II. Trop.

A. To fix, fasten, direct.

1. With in and abl.: ego omnia mea studia, omnem operam, curam, industriam, cogitationem, mentem denique omnem in Milonis consulatu fixi et locavi, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 3.—

2. With in and acc. (rare): fixus in silentium, Tac. A. 6, 50.—

3. In other constructions: beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, 53: nostras intra te fige querelas, Juv. 9, 94: penitus hoc se malum fixit, Sen. Tranq. 15: nequitiae fige modum tuae, Hor. C. 3, 15, 2. —

B. (Acc. to I. B.) Of speech, to sting; taunt, rally a person: aliquem maledictis, Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 93: adversarios, id. Or. 26, 89.—Hence, fixus, a, um, P. a., fixed, fast, immovable.

A. Lit. (very rare): illud maneat et fixum sit, Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 25: inque tuis nunc Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis, i. e. firmly fixed in, Lucr. 3, 4; cf. in the foll.: astra, the fixed stars, Manil. 2, 35; so, flammae, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 15.— Far more freq.,

B. Trop.: vestigia (integritatis) non pressa leviter, sed fixa ad memoriam illius provinciae sempiternam, Cic. Sest. 5, 13: non ita fixum, ut convelli non liceret, id. Clu. 45, 126: fixum et statutum, id. Mur., 30, 62; cf.: consilium fixum, id. Att. 6, 14, 2: animo fixum immotumque sedere, ne, etc., Verg. A, 4, 15: fixum est, with a subj.-clause, it is fixed, determined, Sil. 2, 364; 3, 114: decretum stabile, fixum, ratum, Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 27; cf.: ratum, fixum, firmum, permanent, id. ib. 2, 46, 141: illud fixum in animis vestris tenetote, fixed, impressed, id. Balb. 28, 64: quae perpetuo animo meo fixa manebunt, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 3.— Adv.: fixe, fixedly (late Lat.): ubi tenacius habitabit et fixius, Aug. Ep. 6 fin.