(verb) : perfringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, perfrango
* To break through, to break or dash in pieces, to shiver, shatter (class.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: elephanto pugno perfregisti bracchium,Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26: jumenta ingredientia nivem ... jactandis gravius in connitendo ungulis penitus perfringebant,broke through,Liv. 21, 36, 8: saxo perfracto capite,his skull fractured by a stroke of a stone,id. 4, 28 fin.: tempora fulvo protecta capillo,Ov. M. 12, 274: perfracto saxo sortes erupisse,Cic. Div. 2, 41, 85: Olympum fulmine,Ov. M. 1, 154: nucem,Plin. 10, 12, 14, § 30: aliquid,Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12: munitiones,Caes. B. G. 7, 85: tabulationem,id. B. C. 2, 9: naves perfregerant proras, litori illisas,had been wrecked,Liv. 22, 20.
* Trop.
* To break through, violate, infringe: decreta senatūs,Cic. Mil. 32, 87: leges,id. Cat. 1, 7, 18: ac prosternere omnia cupiditate ac furore,id. Clu. 6, 15.
* To break or burst through: omnia repagula juris, pudoris et officii perfringere. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39: perfringere et labefactare tantam conspirationem bonorum omnium,id. Cat. 4, 10, 22: animos suavitate,to affect powerfully,id. Brut. 9, 38.—Absol.: haec (eloquentia) modo perfringit, modo irrepit in sensus,Cic. Or. 28, 97.

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