To fasten: to stick in. Infigere ictus corpori, Cic. Infigere gladium hosti in pectus. Cic. To thrust his sworde into. Sagitra infigitur arbore, pro in arbore. Virg. The arrow is shat into % tree or sticketh fast in the tree. Insigere sagittarum venabula prætereuntibus. Pl. To shoot the hunting arrowes or quaries into beasts as they passe by. Inculcare & infigere aliquid. Plin. iuni. To repeat oftÊ and make to sticke fast in minde. In ipsa natura positum atque infixum est. Cic. Infixum est animo. Quin. It sticketh in memorie.

I. Lit.: gladium hosti in pectus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 50: ferreis hamis infixis, Caes. B. G. 7, 73 fin.: hastam portae, Verg. A. 9, 746: signum, Cic. Div. 2, 31: (sagitta) infigitur arbore, remains fixed, sticks fast, Verg. A. 5, 504: vulnus infixum, made by a thrust, id. ib. 4, 689: infixa corpori extrahere, things stuck in the body, Plin. 26, 12, 79, 128; cf.: infixum moenibus hostem deicere, standing firmly on, Sil. 11, 173: infixum educere telum, Ov. M. 13, 393: aliquem in limo, Vulg. Psa. 68, 3.—

II. Trop., to infix, impress, imprint (esp. freq. in the part. perf.): quod in hominum sensibus atque in ipsa natura positum atque infixum est, Cic. Clu. 6, 17: infigere animis res, Quint. 9, 4, 134: religio infixa animo, Liv. 29, 18, 1: quicquid infixum et ingenitum est, Sen. Ep. 11: quae sint inculcanda, infigenda, repetenda, Plin. Ep. 1, 20: infixus pectori dolor haeret, id. ib.: natis oscula, Sil. 12, 738: oscula dextris, id. 12, 592; 8, 127: infixum est mihi, I have firmly resolved, I am determined: Vologesi penitus infixum erat arma Romana vitandi, Tac. A. 15, 5; so with inf.: infixum est fugere, Sil. 4, 332; 10, 643.