The corpus record — Latin

perforo

to bore through

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
De Medicina 12 · 1.17/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

per-fŏro — Lewis & Short

per-fŏro, āvi, ātum, 1 (in tmesi:

I perque forare, Lucr. 5, 126, 8), v. a., to bore through, pierce through, perforate.

I Lit. (class.; syn. terebro): navem, Cic. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 47: perforare ac demergere triremem, Auct. B. Alex. 25: lacernam lanceā, Vell. 2, 80, 3: duo pectora uno ictu, Ov. M. 12, 377: ense latus, id. Tr. 3, 9, 26: gladio latus, Vulg. Judith, 13, 28: Stabianum, to cut through for the sake of a prospect, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1: duo lumina perforata, perforated, made by boring, id. N. D. 3, 4, 9: viae ad oculos a sede animae, id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: berulli perforati, Plin. 37, 5, 20, § 78.—In mal. part., Auct. Priap. 78.—Fig.: habebit sinum facilem, non perforatum, ex quo multa exeant et nihil excidat, Sen. Dial. 6, 23, 5.—

II Transf., to pierce through, penetrate (poet.): sol perforat culmina radiis totis, Stat. S. 1, 5, 46.

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