1. fŏdĭo — Lewis & Short
fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3 (ante-class. form of the
I 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,don't punch me in the side, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 17 (cf. fodicare).—Poet.:
Ausonius mersis celer fodit aequora remis,digs through, ploughs through, Sil. 14, 359:
aquas (ungula),Ov. F. 3, 456.—In mal. part., Mart. 7, 102; Auct. Priap. 53.—
III Trop., to goad, sting, disturb:
num exspectas, dum te stimulis fodiam?Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86; cf.:
cor stimulo foditur,Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 39:
pungit dolor, vel fodiat sane,Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 33:
pectus in iras,to excite, stir, Sil. 5, 159.