coerceantur
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;
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...criminum manifestos merito ad servitutem retrahi, ut metu coerceantur, quos beneficia non mutavissent. Disserebatur contra: paucorum culpam ipsis..."Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...autem se contra disciplinam meam gesserint, statim coerceantur; aut, si plus admiserint quam ut in re praesenti satis..."