coercemus
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. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...spiritum et labeas quasi intra nosmet ipsos coercemus. Hoc idem fit et in eo, quod dicimus..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...statim fuit? Quid non cultu mitescit? cur vites coercemus manu? cur eas fodimus? Rubos arvis excidimus: terra..."
