conpescuit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Pharia manes iacuere fauilla nec cinis exiguus tantam conpescuit umbram; prosiluit busto semustaque membra relinquens degeneremque rogum sequitur..."Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Arsacidae; quis enim post uolnera cladisAssyriae iustas Latii conpescuit iras?tot meritis obstricta meis nunc Parthia ruptis 235excedat..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uictum post terga relinqueret orbem,Oceani tumidas remo conpescuit undas 370fregit et Arctoo spumantem uertice Rhenum:iussa sequi..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...confluentem operamque sibi in adserenda dignitate tumultuosius pollicentem conpescuit. Quod cum praeter opinionem evenisset, senatus ob eundem coetum..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...velamina lapsa reliquit. ut lea saeva sitim multa conpescuit unda, dum redit in silvas, inventos forte sine ipsa..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aurigam pariterque animaque rotisque expulit et saevis conpescuit ignibus ignes. consternantur equi et saltu in contraria facto colla..."