obstringi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obstringo, obstringere, obstrinxi, obstrictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
confine; involve; oblige, put under an obligation, bind, bind by oath;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deinde in errorem versum facinus. Propius est fidem obstringi Fidenatium populum ne respicere spem ullam ab Romanis posset..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...cogentis non coactos, scelestos magis quam miseros (?) obstringi. Ad Iovis mandem (?) iram. Publicum studiis corruperant me veri . . . unum..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...atque talia dicenti adstrepere vulgus, gentili quisque religione obstringi, non telis, non vulneribus cessuros. Obstupefecit ea alacritas ducem..."