refigo
refigo, to unfix, unfasten, unloose, tear down, pull out, take off
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
refīgō, fīxī, fīxus, 3, a.: to unfasten, loosen, 5.527; take down, 5.360; unfasten or take down the tablets of the laws, render null, annul, abolish, 6.622; refīxus, a, um, loosened, falling, 5.527.
rĕ-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., 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.
re-fīgo, fīxī, fīxum, ere, Angeheftetes, Befestigtes losheften, losmachen, abnehmen, abreißen, I) eig.: tabulas, Cic.: signa templis, Hor. – II) meton.: A) öffentlich angeschlagene Gesetztafeln wieder abnehmen, d.i. die Gesetze einziehen, aufheben, abschaffen, ungültig machen, leges, Cic.: aera, Cic. – B) los-, beweglich machen, einpacken, nostra, meine Kapitalien flottmachen, Cur. in Cic. ep. 7, 29, 1.
See: refigere
rĕfīgō, (13) xī, xum, ĕre, tr., ¶ 1 desceller, déclouer, arracher, enlever : Cic. Phil. 12, 12 ; Virg. En. 5, 360 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 56 ; cruce se Sen. Vita b. 19, 2, se détacher de la croix ¶ 2 [fig.] leges Cic. Phil. 13, 5, abolir, abroger des lois, cf. Fam. 12, 1, 2.
- 1. losmaken, afnemen, afrukken [tabulas; signa templis (abl.) van de tempels];
- 2. (metaf.) afschaffen, opheffen, ongeldig maken [leges].
re-fīgō fīxī, fīxus, ere,
- to unfix, unfasten, unloose, tear down, pull out, take off: tabulae, quas vos decretis vestris refixistis?have taken down: clipeum Neptuni sacro de poste, V.: templis Parthorum signa, H.: caelo refixa sidera, falling, V. —To annul, abolish, abrogate (by removing the tablets on which laws were published): leges.