coartarent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coarto, coartare, coartavi, coartatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
narrow; hem in, pack/crowd/bring/fit close together, restrict; shorten/abridge;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quam difficile sit res suas ad naturalem modum coartare, hic ipse quem circumcidimus, quem tu uocas pauperem, habet..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...contingebant, cum tot pariter ac tam nobiles forum coartarent, cum clientelae quoque ac tribus et municipiorum etiam legationes..."