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
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...spiritum et labeas quasi intra nosmet ipsos coercemus. Hoc idem fit et in eo, quod dicimus..." - M
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..."
