trans-fīgo — Lewis & Short
trans-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a.
I To thrust or pierce through, to transpierce, transfix a thing or a person (class.;
syn. traicio): sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit,Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25:
evelli jussit eam, quā erat transfixus, hastam,Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97:
transfixi pilis,Caes. B. G. 7, 62:
Q. Fabium gladio per pectus transfigit,Liv. 2, 46, 4:
stricto gladio simul verbis increpans transfigit puellam,id. 1, 26, 3:
contrario ictu per parmam transfixus,id. 2, 6, 9:
latus,id. 5, 36, 7:
corpus,id. 21, 8, 11:
transfigitur scutum Pulfioni,Caes. B. G. 5, 44:
scuta uno ictu pilorum,id. ib. 1, 25:
unguibus anguem, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 47, 106: transfixo pectore,Verg. A. 1, 44.—In a Greek construction:
qui hastis corpus transfigi solent,Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 11; so,
sonipes transfixus pectora ferro,Luc. 7, 528.—
II To thrust something through a thing (poet. and very rare):
latos huic hasta per armos Acta tremit duplicatque virum transfixa dolore,Verg. A. 11, 645:
ora ducis transfixo deformia pilo,Luc. 9, 138.