rĕ-fīgo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a.,
I to unfix, unfasten, unloose, tear or pluck down, pull out or off (class.).
I Lit.:
num figentur rursus eae tabulae, quas vos decretis vestris refixistis?have taken down, Cic. Phil. 12, 5, 12:
affixis hostium spoliis, quae nec emptori refigere liceret,Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 7; so,
clipeo refixo,Hor. C. 1, 28, 11:
clipeum de poste Neptuni sacro,Verg. A. 5, 360:
signa Parthorum templis,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 56:
clipeos captos in bello,Sil. 10, 601:
dentes,to pull out, extract, Cels. 6, 15 fin.:
refigere se crucibus,Sen. Vit. Beat. 19 fin.; cf.:
refixum corpus interfectoris cremavit,Just. 9, 7, 11. — Poet.:
caelo refixa sidera,loosened, falling down, Verg. A. 5, 527:
non hasta refixas vendit opes,the plundered goods, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 497.—
II Transf.
1 To take down the tables of the laws suspended in public, i. e. to annul, abolish, abrogate laws:
acta M. Antonii rescidistis, leges refixistis,Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5; cf.:
cujus aera refigere debeamus,id. Fam. 12, 1 fin.: fixit leges pretio atque refixit, for a bribe, Verg, A. 6, 622.— *
2 To take away, remove: quo facilius nostra refigere deportareque tuto possimus, Curius ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29, 1.