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