compellet
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. pres. act. subj. 3rd - Entry →compello, compellere, compuli, compulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive together (cattle), round up; force, compel, impel, drive; squeeze; gnash;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...insana aut ebria est, Messenio, quae hominem ignotum compellet me tam familiariter. MESS. Dixin ego istaec hic solere..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...domicilio animus liber habitat. Numquam me caro ista compellet ad metum, numquam ad indignam bono simulationem; numquam..."Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Hannibalem habeto: si qua res te ad pacem compellet, in id consilium alium cum quo deliberes quaerito..."
