home (adv.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • home (adv.): I. Lit.: homewards, to home: dŏmum, dŏmos (of more than one): v. home, subs. (2). II. Fig.: in certain phr.: (i). to drive h. (a weapon), strike h.: ădĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3 (foll. by such an acc. as ferrum, telum): Liv. 27, 49, init.: Just. 1, 9, extr. Phr.: to strike h. (deal a home thrust), vitalia ferire (deal a mortal wound), Quint. 5, 12, 22; gravem plagam facere (to inflict a severe wound), Cic. Or. 68, 228 (two latter phr. used fig.). (ii). to come h. to any one; to affect deeply: Phr.: that remark came h. to him with great force, quod verbum in pectus ei alte descendit, cf. Sall. Jug. 11, fin.: not to come h. to the heart so powerfully, segnius irritare animos, Hor. A. P. 180: to come h. to the heart, cor tangere, animos commovere (v. heart, III.). (N.B.--Pertinere, interesse, cadere, convenire, denote only that something is applicable, not that it actually comes h. to the person whom it concerns.)