compellabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compello, compellare, compellavi, compellatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
address/accost, speak to, call upon; appeal to; challenge; chide/rebuke; accuse;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sedibus Opim, unam ex virginibus sociis sacraque caterva, compellabat et has tristis Latonia voces ore dabat: 'graditur bellum..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...segnem, pro cauto timidum, adfingens uicina uirtutibus uitia, compellabat, premendoque superiorem, quae pessima ars nimis prosperis multorum successibus..."