The corpus record — Latin

perfodio

To dig through

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Punica 12 · 1.57/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-fŏdĭo — Lewis & Short

per-fŏdĭo, fōdi (perfodīvi,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 64 Ritschl

I N. cr.), fossum, 3, v. a.

I To dig through, to pierce through, transfix (class.): parietes, Plaut. As. 3, 2, 17: parietem, id. l. l.; Cic. Vatin. 5, 11; Vulg. Matt. 24, 43: montem, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9: Athone perfosso, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112: thorax perfossus, Verg. A. 11, 10: pectus, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6: pectora, Stat. Th. 9, 522: spinā argenteā dentes, to pick, Petr. 33.—Hence,

2 To break into: perfodit in tenebris domos, Vulg. Job, 24, 16; id. Matt. 24, 43.—

II To make by digging through: fretum, Liv. 33, 17, 6.

Where it came from

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