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
- M
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..." - P
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..."