compescat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compesco, compescere, compescui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
restrain, check; quench; curb, confine, imprison; hold in check; block, close;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...pacis utitur, alter, ut magno timore magna odia compescat, nec illas ipsas manus, quibus se commisit, securus adspicit..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...relaturae ordinem tristissimae sortis conlata malignitate cludat ora, compescat auditus. securi tamen estote, mortales..."
