ef-fŏdĭo — Lewis & Short
ef-fŏdĭo, also exf- and ecf- (cf. Neue, Formenl. 2, 767, 769), fōdi, fossum, 3 (
I inf. pass.:
ecfodiri,Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 44; 2, 4, 21), v. a., to dig out, dig up (class.):
nec ferrum, aes, argentum, aurum effoderetur,Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.:
carbones e sepulcris,Plin. 35, 6, 25, § 41:
lapides puteis,id. 36, 22, 45, § 161:
aulam auri plenam,Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 9; cf.
thensaurum,id. Trin. 3, 3, 53; 4, 4, 8:
opes,Ov. M. 1, 140;
and facetiously: ex hoc sepulcro vetere (i. e. ex sene avaro) viginti minas Ecfodiam ego hodie,Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 20:
signum,Liv. 22, 3 fin.:
saxum medio de limite,Juv. 16, 38 et saep,:
spoliatis effossisque eorum domibus,ransacked, Caes. B. C. 3, 42 fin.; cf.:
terram altius,Quint. 10, 3, 2:
humum rastello,Suet. Ner. 19:
montem,id. Claud. 25:
tellurem, Petr. poët. 128, 6, 2: lacum,Suet. Dom. 4; cf.
cavernas,i. e. to make by digging, id. Ner. 48:
sepulcra,Verg. G. 1, 497 et saep.—In the voc. part. pass.:
ex sterquilinio effosse,thou dug from a dung-hill! Plaut. Cas. 1, 26.—Esp. freq.:
ecfodere oculos or oculum (alicui),to scratch out, tear out, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 14; id. Curc. 3, 26; id. Men. 1, 2, 46; id. Mil. 2, 3, 44; id. Trin. 2, 4, 62; * Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2; Caes. B. G. 7, 4 fin.; Cic. Rep. 3, 17; Suet. Dom. 17; Vulg. 4 Reg. 25, 7 et saep.; cf.
lumen,Verg. A. 3, 663;
and transf.: hi duo illos oculos orae maritimae effoderunt,Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 91:
effossum alterum Romani imperii lumen,Vell. 2, 52, 3.—So, too, vesicam, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 22; and poet.:
viscera,i. e. to cause abortion, Ov. Am. 2, 14, 27.