compescit
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...umquam committet uirtus ut uitia dum compescit imitetur; iram ipsam castigandam habet, quae nihilo melior est, saepe etiam..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...uidet ire Menoetes, cui uacat, et carae gemitus compescit alumnae. cum tamen erectas extremus uirginis aures accessit sonus..."Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...Thessalicis felix Admetus ab oris uix steriles compescit equas, Centaurica dicunt semina: credo, adeo sexum indignantur, et omnis..."Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...forsan grege gentibus alter 185iura dat Eois, alter compescit Hiberas,alter Achaemenium secludit Zeumate Persen,hi dites Asiae..."