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defodio

defodio · v. a

To dig downwards

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1 · 84.03/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 3 · 2.32/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-fŏdĭo — Lewis & Short

dē-fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3, v. a.

I To dig downwards or deep; to dig up, to dig (rare): scrobem in limine stabuli, Col. 7, 5, 17: specus, Verg. G. 3, 376: domos, id. Cul. 273: terram, Hor. S. 1, 1, 42: locum in altitudinem pedum quinque, Plin. 31, 3, 27, § 46: defosso lacu, Suet. Caes. 39.—More freq.,

II To bury in the earth (quite class.): homines defoderunt in terram dimidiatos, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 14, 19; Lucr. 5, 935; 1366; Liv. 8, 10 fin.: thesaurum defossum esse sub lecto, Cic. Div. 2, 65; cf. id. de Or. 2, 41: cotem et novaculam in comitio, Cic. Div. 1, 17, 33: hospitem (necatum) in aedibus, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 51; 71: lapidem in agro, Ov. F. 2, 641 al.: aliquem humo, Ov. M. 4, 239; id. F. 6, 458.—

B Transf., to hide, conceal, cover: defodiet (aetas) condetque nitentia, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 25: quae necessitas hominem defodit, ut erueret aurum, Sen. N. Q. 5, 15, 3; Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9: se, Sen. ad Marc. 2 fin.

In the wild

defossa Vergil, Aeneid 10.526
defossa Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.6.15
defossos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.2.p1
defossa Apuleius, Apologia 42
defodere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.13.p3
defodiatur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.17.4

6 of 99 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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