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
- T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...deinde in errorem versum facinus. Propius est fidem obstringi Fidenatium populum ne respicere spem ullam ab Romanis posset..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...cogentis non coactos, scelestos magis quam miseros (?) obstringi. Ad Iovis mandem (?) iram. Publicum studiis corruperant me veri . . . unum..." - P
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..."