compulere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romanis rati, mercennariorum quoque militum auxilia in eundem compulere metum; arreptisque armis praetores primum obtruncant, inde ad caedem..."Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...manus conserere adsueti fuerant. urgendo cedentes insequendoque effusos compulere ad castra; ibi interventu Gelli cohortiumque Sabellarum paulisper recruduit..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...maior potestas quaereretur; sed nova consilia Manli magis compulere senatum ad dictatorem creandum. Creatus A. Cornelius Cossus magistrum..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...gesta euntem adorti Aequi terrore iniecto in proximos compulere tumulos; pavorque inde Verruginem etiam ad praesidium alterum..."