coerce
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coerceo, coercere, coercui, coercitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
enclose, confine; restrain, check, curb, repress; limit; preserve; punish;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tellus campos effusa patentisuix oculo prendente modum, camposque coerces, 20Cinga rapax, uetitus fluctus et litora cursuOceani pepulisse..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nefas. Nvt. Moderare, alumna, mentis effrenae impetus, animos coerce. dignam ob hoc uita reor quod esse temet autumas..." - L
[Proverbs]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...oportet, persuaseris. 15. Ut licentiosa mancipia animi imperio coerce linguam, ventrem, libidinem. 16. Quod tacitum velis esse, nemini..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...tibi barbam lascivi pueri, quos tu nisi fuste coerces, urgeris turba circum te stante miserque rumperis et latras..."