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compellunt

Dictionary entries

  • 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;

    Entry →
    pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd

Examples

  • T

    Poenulus

    Titus Maccius Plautus

    "...praeda hic hodie incedet venator domum: canes compellunt in plagas lepide lupum. LYC. Quis hic est? ADV. Nescimus..."
  • G

    Liber I

    Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI

    "...deprimunt, nonnullas cum hominibus capiunt, reliquas in portum compellunt. Eo die naves Massiliensium cum eis, quae sunt captae..."
  • T

    Liber VII

    Titus Livius (Livy)

    "...intra vallum se possent, paventem primum intra castra compellunt, deinde castra ipsa turbatis stationibus capiunt. Perfertur circa collem..."

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