coerceas
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. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...nihil tamen teneas, nihil apprehendas, nusquam orationem rapidam coerceas. Omnis autem in quaerendo, quae via quadam et ratione..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...auctos nisi per dura et aspera coerceas: corruptus simul et corruptor, aeger et flagrans animus haud levioribus remediis..."
