conpescent
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;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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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..." - M
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..."