(verb) : compesco, pescui (pescitum, Prisc. p. 887 P.), 3, compes
* To fasten together, to confine, hold in check, to repress, curb, restrain (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; the words quoted as from Cic. by Quint. 11, 3, 169: quin compescitis vocem istam? ap. Cic. himself, Rab. Perd. 8, 18, are: quin continetis vocem).
* Lit.: ramos fluentes,i. e. to clip, prune,Verg. G. 2, 370; Col. 5, 6, 11: spatiantia bracchia,Ov. M. 14, 630: ignibus ignes,id. ib. 2, 313: incendia,Plin. Ep. 10, 33 (43), 2: mare,Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 16: luxuriosam vitem fructu,Col. 4, 21, 2; cf. Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 124: harundinem,Col. 4, 32, 5; cf.: coërceo cretam, to tread, stamp, Titin. ap. Non. p. 245, 32: equum angustis habenis,Tib. 1, 4, 11: suos ocellos,Prop. 1, 16, 31: seditiosum civem,Quint. 11, 1, 40; cf. legiones,Suet. Calig. 1: multitudinem,id. Caes. 16.
* Trop., to suppress, repress, restrain, check, etc.: seditionem exercitūs verbo uno, Tac. A. 1, 42: hostiles motus per legatos,Suet. Tib. 37: sitim multā undā,Ov. M. 4, 102: maledicta hinc aufer; linguam compescas face,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 75; cf. querellas. * Lucr. 3, 954 Lachm.: tristitiam,Ov. M. 9, 396: clamorem,Hor. C. 2, 20, 23: risum,id. S. 2, 8, 63; and: vino dolores,Tib. 1, 2, 1: animam frenis et catenā,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 63: mentem,id. C. 1, 16, 22: scelera,Quint. 12, 1, 26: ardorem (together with temperavit vim suam),Tac. Agr. 8: mores dissolutos vi,Phaedr. 1, 2, 12.
* With inf.: cave malum et compesce in illum dicere injuste,cease, forbear,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 59.

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