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
- L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."