The corpus record — Latin

perfuro

perfuro · v. a

to rage through

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

per-fŭro — Lewis & Short

per-fŭro, 3, v. a. and n.,

I to rage through, run furiously through (poet.)

I Act.: Eoas domos, Stat. Th. 4, 388.—

II Neutr., to rage furiously, to rage on: incensus et ipse Perfurit, Verg. A. 9, 343: ita perfurit acri Cum fremitu ventus, Lucr. 1, 275.

In the wild

perfurit Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.383
perfurit Silius Italicus, Punica 4.243
perfuris Statius, Thebais 4.389
perfurit Vergil, Aeneid 9.343
perfurere Statius, Thebais 4.823
perfurit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.275

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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