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
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..."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..."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..."