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
- C
Agesilaus
Cornelius Nepos
"...Persas dare potuisse. Idem cum adversarios intra moenia compulisset et, ut Corinthum oppugnaret, multi hortarentur, negavit id suae..." - L
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..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caedendo exercitus agros populando in eam necessitatem hostes compulisset ut supplices pacem peterent, et nemo omnium uerius existimare..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...saltum Thermopylarum insidebant cum trepidos hostes Heracleam compulisset, ipse uno die Phocidis Elatiam milia amplius sexaginta contendit. eodem..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...praedam vellet, quia si agendo armentum in speluncam compulisset ipsa vestigia quaerentem dominum eo deductura erant, aversos boves..."