transfodio

trans-fŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3, v. a., to thrust or run through, to stab through, transfix, transpierce (class., but not in Cic.): Galli in scrobes delapsi transfodiebantur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 82:

deinde fugienti latus transfodisse,

Liv. 39, 42, 12:

transfosso oculo,

Tac. A. 3, 20 fin.:

cochlea acu transfossa,

Plin. 30, 4, 11, § 31.—In a Greek construction:

pectora duro Transfossi ligno,

Verg. A. 9, 544.