cohibebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cohibeo, cohibere, cohibui, cohibitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hold together, contain; hold back, restrain, curb, hinder; confine; repress;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...natura animi, quod erat aeque suum: perpetiebatur et cohibebat coercebatque infra sese uiolentias effrenati doloris. Nullos eiulatus, nullas..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...tractabantur, dabaturque primoribus disserere et in adulationem lapsos cohibebat ipse; mandabatque honores, nobilitatem maiorum, claritudinem militiae, inlustris domi..."