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
- T
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...copiast, tum non velis; [ille qui aspellit is compellit, ille qui consuadet vetat.] insanum [et] malumst in hospitium..." - L
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..." - T
Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exclusa Masinissam ipsum cum paucis in uerticem montis compellit. inde prope iam ut debellato nec praeda modo pecorum..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...infestum plebei, diu ac multum recusantem ad petitionem compellit. Is proximo comitiali die concedentibus omnibus, qui cum Varrone..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dimisso cum magna caede, maiore fuga ad naves compellit; nec diutius circa ea loca morari ausus..."