compescunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...imperatores, cum male parere militem vident, aliquo labore compescunt et expeditionibus detinent: numquam vacat lascivire districtis, nihilque..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...fugiente dulcis murmurat riuo sonus. excussa siluis poma compescunt famem et fraga paruis uulsa dumetis cibos faciles ministrant..."