(verb) : prae-fīgo, xi, xum, 3
* To fix or fasten before, to set up in front, to fix on the end or extremity of.
* Lit. (class., but not in Cic.): ripa erat acutis sudibus praefixis munita,Caes. B. G. 5, 18; so, praefigere aëneos cancellos foraminibus,Col. 8, 17, 6: arma puppibus,Verg. A. 10, 80: in hastis Praefigunt capita,id. ib. 9, 466; cf.: vexillum in biremis puppe,Suet. Calig. 15: rostrum lupi villarum portis,Plin. 28, 10, 44, § 157: caput hastae,Suet. Caes. 85.— Poet.: nigrum theta (i. e. Θ, as a sign of death on Roman inscriptions) vitio, to mark crime with the black theta, i. e. to condemn it, Pers. 4, 13.
* Transf., aliquid aliquā re.
* To tip, head, point, etc.: asseres cuspidibus praefixi,Caes. B. C. 2, 2: jacula praefixa ferro, Liv. 26, 4, 4: aere aut ferro praefixae hastae,Curt. 3, 2, 7: ferro praefixum robur acuto,Verg. A. 10, 479: ora capistris,to muzzle,id. G. 3, 399.
* To close, block up (post-Aug.): prospectus om nes,to wall up, build up,Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 59: fenestrae praefixae,Dig. 8, 2, 5.—*
* To pierce, transfix with something: latus praefixa veru,Tib. 1, 7, 55 (6, 49).—*
* To enchant, bewitch, Quint. Decl. 10, 8.

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