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
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..."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..."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..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...verso itinere ad proelium venire; sed erant agminis coactores: agniti dempsere sollicitudinem. interim Verginii servus forte obvius..."
