conpescit
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...veritas lucet. Si reverentia frenat animos ac vitia conpescit, cur non et admonitio idem possit? Si inponit pudorem..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modo luxuriem premit et spatiantia passim bracchia conpescit, fisso modo cortice virgam inserit et sucos alieno praestat alumno..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...libertum suum Asiaticum equestri dignitate donaret, inhonestam adulationem conpescit; dein mobilitate ingenii, quod palam abnuerat, inter secreta convivii..."