ef-flīgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to strike dead, to kill, destroy (very rare): qui filium misit ad effligendum Pompeium, Cic. Att. 9, 19, 2: nisi pedatu tertio omnis efflixero (with obtruncavero and occidero), Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 50; cf.: rabidos canes (with caedere), Sen. Ira, 1, 15: viperas et natrices, id. ib. 2, 31 fin.; Plaut. As. 4, 2, 9.
Hence,
- 1. efflictim, adv., to death, desperately.
With amare, deperire, etc., i. e. amare usque donicum effligatur, Prob. ap. Charis. p. 178 (ante-class.); Naev. ap. Charis. l. l.; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19 (twice); id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Poen. prol. 96; 5, 2, 15; Laber. and Pompon. ap. Non. 104, 24 sq.
- 2. efflicte, in like sense (post-class.): cupere aliquid, App. M. 5, p. 171, 36: diligere, Symm. Ep. 1, 84.