coercuerat
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. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...aliquot ante annos Luci Saturnini seditiosum tribunatum senatus coercuerat, ac sorte iudex in reum ductus tam cupide condemnavit..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...positu variare comas; ubi fibula vestem, vitta coercuerat neglectos alba capillos; et modo leve manu iaculum, modo sumpserat..."