coactor
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coacto, coactare, coactavi, coactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
compel; constrain; force;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 1st - Entry →coactor, coactoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
collector (of money/taxes/etc); [agminis ~ => troops bringing up rear];; fuller; (felter?); (cloth worker); one who forces to something;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...opus sit sed adiutore et, ut ita dicam, coactore; hic tertius color est. Si quaeris huius quoque exemplar..." - G
Horace
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...Venusinus, patre ut ipse tradit libertino et exactionum coactore (ut vero creditum est salsamentario, cum illi quidam..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...olim si praeco parvas aut, ut fuit ipse, coactor mercedes sequerer; neque ego essem questus. at hoc nunc..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...verso itinere ad proelium venire; sed erant agminis coactores: agniti dempsere sollicitudinem. interim Verginii servus forte obvius..."
