compellitur
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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...atque illam partem non uento tantum sed aura compellitur, nec umquam illi per diem ac noctem uno loco..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...restituitur aut deficiens hinc atque illinc in frontem compellitur? Quomodo irascuntur, si tonsor paulo neglegentior fuit, tamquam uirum..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...orbitas sordibus suis. ac ne pelicis quidem dolore compellitur, nec tacita gaudia mariti impatientia et muliebri vanitate complorat..."