conpesce
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conpesco, conpescere, conpescui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
restrain, check; quench; curb, confine, imprison; hold in check; block, close;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...dummodo quidquid legeris ad mores statim referas. Illos conpesce, marcentia in te excita, soluta constringe, contumacia doma, cupiditates..."XIV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quid ergo sanitate tam rigida? paulatim potius ratione conpesce, misceantur consilia blanditiis, veritas temperetur. alioquin non est, quod..."
