fastigo

fastīgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [v. fastigium], to make pointed, to sharpen to a point, to raise or bring to a point (in the verb. finit. only post-Aug., not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

frumenta verno tempore fastigantur in stipulam,

grow up into a straw with a sharpened point, Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 52:

folia in exilitatem fastigantur,

id. 24, 19, 118, § 178:

(terra) spatiosa modice paulatim se ipsa fastigat,

Mel. 2, 1, 5:

se molliter (Africa),

id. 1, 4, 1; 3, 10, 5.—In the part. perf.:

scutis super capita densatis, stantibus primis, secundis summissioribus... fastigatam, sicut tecta aedificiorum sunt, testudinem faciebant,

Liv. 44, 9, 6:

collis in modum metae in acutum cacumen a fundo satis lato fastigatus,

id. 37, 27, 7:

fastigatus in mucronem,

Plin. 2, 25, 22, § 89:

fastigatā longitudine (margaritarum),

id. 9, 35, 56, § 113.—

B.

Transf.

1.

(Cf. fastigium, I. B. 2.) Fastigatus, sloping up to a point, sloped; sloping down, steep, descending:

collis leniter fastigatus paulatim ad planitiem redibat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8, 3:

tigna... prona ac fastigata, ut secundum naturam fluminis procumberent,

id. ib. 4, 17, 4.—

2.

(Cf. I. B. 3.) In the later grammarians, to mark with an accent, to accent:

ut fastigetur, longa brevisve fuat,

Mart. Cap. 3, § 262.—

II.

Trop., to elevate, exalt (late Lat.):

qui statum celsitudinis tuae titulorum parilitate fastigat,

Sid. Ep. 3, 6:

quamquam diademate crinem Fastigatus eas,

id. Carm. 2, 5.—Hence, fastīgātus, a, um, P. a., high, exalted (late Lat.):

ad arcem fastigatissimae felicitatis evectus,

Sid. Ep. 2. 4:

duo fastigatissimi consulares,

id. ib. 1, 9.— Adv.: fastīgāte, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4; id. B. C. 2, 10, 5.