compellite
Dictionary entries
- 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;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...copiast, tum non velis; [ille qui aspellit is compellit, ille qui consuadet vetat.] insanum [et] malumst in hospitium..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...unum stellis limitem ponit? Quis in angustum diuina compellit? Nempe haec ipsa sidera quae sola moueri creditis, alios..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exclusa Masinissam ipsum cum paucis in uerticem montis compellit. inde prope iam ut debellato nec praeda modo pecorum..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...infestum plebei, diu ac multum recusantem ad petitionem compellit. Is proximo comitiali die concedentibus omnibus, qui cum Varrone..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dimisso cum magna caede, maiore fuga ad naves compellit; nec diutius circa ea loca morari ausus..."