conpellite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conpello, conpellere, conpuli, conpulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive together (cattle), round up; force, compel, impel, drive; squeeze; gnash;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...maxime mouet fatigatio, siue quia calorem in media conpellit et nocet sanguini cursumque eius uenis laborantibus sistit, siue..."I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quam manifesta est conscientia, quae te ad hanc conpellit necessitatem, ut, cum occisum a privigno tuo patrem videri..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...Danai per sacra fidemque hospitii blandusque precum conpellit Ulixes. ille, etsi carae conperta iniuria natae et Thetidis mandata..."