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
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..."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..."[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..."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..."