(v. a.P. a.) : cŏ-hĭbĕo, ui (
* Perf. subj. cohibessit, Lucr. 3, 444 Lachm.), ĭtum, 2, v. a. habeo.
* To hold together, to hold, contain, confine, embrace, comprise (class.; syn. contineo): omnes naturas ipsa (universa natura) cohibet et continet,Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35; Lucr. 3, 441 sq.; 1, 517; 1, 536: (nubes) ut fumus constare nequirent, Nec cohibere nives gelidas et grandinis imbres,id. 6, 107: aliquid in se,id. 2, 1031; cf. Cic. Fat. 9, 19: at Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris,Verg. A. 3, 424: semen occaecatum,Cic. de Sen. 15, 51: nodo crinem,Hor. C. 3, 14, 22: namque marem cohibent callosa (ova) vitellum,id. S. 2, 4, 14: auro lacertos,to encircle,Ov. H. 9, 59: bracchium togā,Cic. Cael. 5, 11: deos parietibus,Tac. G. 9.
* Trop. (very rare): sed interest inter causas fortuito antegressas, et inter causas cohibentis in se efficientiam naturalem, Cic. Fat. 9, 19.
* With the access. idea of hindering free motion, to hold, keep, keep back, hinder, stay, restrain, stop, etc. (in a lit. sense in prose rare, but trop. very freq.).
* Prop.: cohibete intra limen etiam vos parumper,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 1: nec muris cohibet patriis media Ardea Turnum,Verg. A. 9, 738: carcere ventos,Ov. M. 14, 224: ventos in antris,id. ib. 15, 346: cervos arcu, to stop, poet. for to kill, Hor. C. 4, 6, 34: nec Stygiā cohibebor undā,id. ib. 2, 20, 8: tempestatibus in portibus cohiberi, Auct. B. Afr. 98: cohiberi in vinculis,Curt. 6, 2, 11: Pirithoum cohibent catenae,Hor. C. 3, 4, 80: claustra cohibentia Janum,id. Ep. 2, 1, 255: ab aliquā re,Liv. 22, 3, 9; Tac. A. 1, 56: sanguis spongiā in aceto tinctā cohibendus est,Cels. 8, 4; cf. Plin. 27, 11, 69, § 93: alvum,id. 29, 3, 11, § 49: milites intra castra,Curt. 10, 3, 6: aquilones jugis montium,id. 8, 9, 12.
* Trop.
* Cohibere aliquid or cohibere se, to stop something (or one's self), to hold in check, to restrain, limit, confine, keep back, repress, tame, subdue (syn.: contineo, refreno, arceo, coerceo): motus animi perturbatos,Cic. Off. 2, 5, 18: furentis impetus crudelissimosque conatus,id. Phil. 3, 2, 5; cf.: furorem alicujus,id. ib. 5, 13, 37: temeritatem,id. Ac. 1, 12, 45: gaudia clausa in sinu tacito,Prop. 2 (3), 25, 30. iras,Verg. A. 12, 314: pravas aliorum spes,Tac. A. 3, 56: ac premeret sensus suos,id. ib. 3, 11: bellum,Liv. 9, 29, 5: malum,Tac. A. 6, 16: sumptus,Arn. 2, p. 91: violentias effrenati doloris,Gell. 12, 5, 3: altitudinem aedificiorum,Tac. A. 15, 43: (provinciae) quae procuratoribus cohibentur,i. e. are ruled,id. H. 1, 11: non tu te cohibes? be moderate in grief, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 46; so Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Gell. 4, 9, 3.
* With quominus: vix cohibuere amici, quominus eodem mari oppeteret,Tac. A. 2, 24.—Pass.: ne flumine quidem interjecto, cohiberi quominus, etc.,Tac. A. 2, 10.
* Aliquid ab aliquā re or aliquo, to keep something from something (or somebody), to ward off: manus ab alieno,Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 12: manus, oculos, animum ab auro gazāque regiā,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 66: effrenatas suas libidines a liberis et a conjugibus vestris,id. Mil. 28, 76: adsensionem a rebus incertis,id. N. D. 1, 1, 1.—Hence, cŏhĭbĭtus, a, um, P. a., confined, limited, moderate: dicendi genus,Gell. 7, 14, 7.—Comp.: habitudo cohibitior,Aus. Grat. Act. 27, 2.

s. TLL