Fodio, fodis, fodi, fossum, fódere. Plaut.To digge: to delue: to eare.Fodere argentum.Liu.To mine for siluer.Fodere calcaribus armos equi.Virg.To spurre the borse on the shoulders.Arua fodiebant coloni Ouid.Tilled: delued.Gutrura cultro fodit. Oui. To thrust a knife into his throat.Humum fodere.Virg.To digge or delne.Fodere ense iugulum. Mart. Latus alicuius fodere. Horat. To thruste a weapon into ones side.Fodere ora hastis.Liui.To thrust their speares in their enimies faces.Fodere puteos. Cæs. To digge welles.Sibi ipsi fodere aliquid.Cic.Fodere stimulis.Cic.To pricke with spurre or goade. Fodere terram.Plaut.To digge, delue, or eare the ground.Foditur cor stimulo.Plaut.It pierceth my heart: it pincheth me by the stomacke.Pungit dolor, vel fodiat sane.Cic. Fodiri, pen. prod. quarta coniugatione. Columella. To be digged.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3 (ante-class. form of the inf. praes. pass. fodiri, Cato, R. R. 2, 4; Col. 11, 2, 35, but not in Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21, where the correct read. is exfodivi.— Also acc. to the first conj.: Illyrii restant sicis sibinisque fodantes, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 336 Müll.; cf.: fodare fodere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 84, 7 Müll.), v. n. and a. [Sanscr. root badh-, to dig, ava-bādha, dug out; Gr. ba/qos, baqu/s, be/nqos, a)/bussos, etc., bo/qros, pit; hence, fossa, fundus (for fudnus); cf. Anglo-Sax. bodom; Engl. bottom; Germ. Boden, etc.; cf. Fick, Vergl. Wörterb. p. 131; Grimm, Deutsch. Wörterb. s. v. Boden], to dig, dig up, dig out (class.).—I.Lit.: numquam domum revertor, quin te in fundo conspicer Fodere aut arare, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 17; cf.: fodit; invenit auri aliquantum, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; and id. de Or. 2, 41, 174: vineas novellas fodere aut arare et postea occare, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1; cf.: ut hortum fodiat, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 59: hortum, Cato, R. R. 2, 4: arva, Ov. M. 11, 33: solum, Plin. 19, 6, 32: vites, Quint. 9, 4, 5: murum,
to undermine
, Ov. M. 11, 535; but, vallum, to dig out the earth needed for it, Tac. A. 11, 18: puteum ferramentis,
to dig
, Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 19; so, puteos, Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5: scrobes, trium in altitudinem pedum, id. B. G. 7, 73, 5: fundamenta, Plin. 28, 2, 4, 15: cubilia (talpae), Verg. G. 1, 183: argentum etiam incolae fodiunt, Liv. 28, 3, 3: gypsum e terra, Plin. 36, 24, 59, 182: oculos, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21; cf. lumina, Ov. A. A. 1, 339: terram gramineam de cespite, Verg. Cul. 391.—II.Transf., to prick, pierce, wound, thrust, stab (class.): at ego te pendentem fodiam stimulis triginta dies,
to prick
, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 48: quia non latus fodi (cultro), id. Aul. 3, 2, 4; so, equi armos calcaribus, Verg. A. 6, 881: guttura cultro, Ov. M. 7, 315: ora hastis, Liv. 8, 10, 6: aversos (elephantos) sub caudis, qua maxime molli cute vulnera accipiunt, id. 21, 55: multos pugionibus, Tac. H. 4, 29: Sarmatam levi gladio, id. ib. 1, 79: ora, id. A. 2, 21; id. Agr. 36: adversa ora resistentium, Curt. 4, 15: La. Dic jussisse te. Ph. Noli fodere: jussi,
