compulisset
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;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Agesilaus
Cornelius Nepos
"...Persas dare potuisse. Idem cum adversarios intra moenia compulisset et, ut Corinthum oppugnaret, multi hortarentur, negavit id suae..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...sapientiam et ad confessionem eos veri etiam invitos compulisset. Satis praestiterit ratio, si id unum ex dolore, quod..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caedendo exercitus agros populando in eam necessitatem hostes compulisset ut supplices pacem peterent, et nemo omnium uerius existimare..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...saltum Thermopylarum insidebant cum trepidos hostes Heracleam compulisset, ipse uno die Phocidis Elatiam milia amplius sexaginta contendit. eodem..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...praedam vellet, quia si agendo armentum in speluncam compulisset ipsa vestigia quaerentem dominum eo deductura erant, aversos boves..."