The corpus record — Latin

fodico

to dig

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Where it lives

Casina 1 · 1.29/10k

What it meant

fŏdĭco — Lewis & Short

fŏdĭco, no

I perf., ātum, āre, v. a. fodio, to dig, to pierce (rare but class.). *

I Lit.: mercemur servum, qui dictet nomina, laevum Qui fodicet latus et cogat dextram Porrigere, to dig or jog in the side, * Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 51 (for which fodit, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 17): lateribus fodicatis, Amm. 26, 10, p. 98 Bip.—

II Trop.: animum fodicant, bona distimulant, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30: cf.: stimulus ego nunc sum tibi; fodico corculum, id. Cas. 2, 6, 9: non est in nostra potestate fodicantibus iis rebus, quas malas esse opinemur, dissimulatio vel oblivio, Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35.

In the wild

fodico Plautus, Casina 2.6

Where it came from

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