fodio

fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3 (ante-class. form of the inf. praes. pass. fodiri, Cato, R. R. 2, 4; Col. 11, 2, 35, but not in Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21, where the correct read. is exfodivi.— Also acc. to the first conj.: Illyrii restant sicis sibinisque fodantes, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 336 Müll.; cf.: fodare fodere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 84, 7 Müll.), v. n. and a. [Sanscr. root badh-, to dig, ava-bādha, dug out; Gr. bathos, bathus, benthos, abussos, etc., bothros, pit; hence, fossa, fundus (for fudnus); cf. Anglo-Sax. bodom; Engl. bottom; Germ. Boden, etc.; cf. Fick, Vergl. Wörterb. p. 131; Grimm, Deutsch. Wörterb. s. v. Boden], to dig, dig up, dig out (class.).—

I.

Lit.:

numquam domum revertor, quin te in fundo conspicer Fodere aut arare,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 17; cf.: fodit;

invenit auri aliquantum,

Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134; and id. de Or. 2, 41, 174:

vineas novellas fodere aut arare et postea occare,

Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1; cf.:

ut hortum fodiat,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 59:

hortum,

Cato, R. R. 2, 4:

arva,

Ov. M. 11, 33:

solum,

Plin. 19, 6, 32:

vites,

Quint. 9, 4, 5:

murum,

to undermine, Ov. M. 11, 535; but, vallum, to dig out the earth needed for it, Tac. A. 11, 18:

puteum ferramentis,

to dig, Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 19; so,

puteos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

scrobes, trium in altitudinem pedum,

id. B. G. 7, 73, 5:

fundamenta,

Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 15:

cubilia (talpae),

Verg. G. 1, 183:

argentum etiam incolae fodiunt,

Liv. 28, 3, 3:

gypsum e terra,

Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 182:

oculos,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 21; cf.

lumina,

Ov. A. A. 1, 339:

terram gramineam de cespite,

Verg. Cul. 391.—

II.

Transf., to prick, pierce, wound, thrust, stab (class.):

at ego te pendentem fodiam stimulis triginta dies,

to prick, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 48:

quia non latus fodi (cultro),

id. Aul. 3, 2, 4; so,

equi armos calcaribus,

Verg. A. 6, 881:

guttura cultro,

Ov. M. 7, 315:

ora hastis,

Liv. 8, 10, 6:

aversos (elephantos) sub caudis, qua maxime molli cute vulnera accipiunt,

id. 21, 55:

multos pugionibus,

Tac. H. 4, 29:

Sarmatam levi gladio,

id. ib. 1, 79:

ora,

id. A. 2, 21; id. Agr. 36:

adversa ora resistentium,

Curt. 4, 15: La. Dic jussisse te. Ph. Noli fodere:

jussi,

don't punch me in the side, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 17 (cf. fodicare).— Poet.:

Ausonius mersis celer fodit aequora remis,

digs through, ploughs through, Sil. 14, 359:

aquas (ungula),

Ov. F. 3, 456.—In mal. part., Mart. 7, 102; Auct. Priap. 53.—

III.

Trop., to goad, sting, disturb:

num exspectas, dum te stimulis fodiam?

Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86; cf.:

cor stimulo foditur,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 39:

pungit dolor, vel fodiat sane,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 33:

pectus in iras,

to excite, stir, Sil. 5, 159.