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-ercĕo , cui, cĭtum, 2, v. a. arceo,
I.to enclose something on all sides or wholly, to hold together, to surround, encompass: “qui (mundus) omnia complexu suo coërcet et continet,Cic. N. D. 2, 22, 58; cf. id. ib. 2, 40, 101; Ov. M. 1, 31: “quā circum Galli lorica coërcet,where the Gallic coat of mail encloses, Lucr. 6, 954; cf. “of a band holding the hair together,Ov. M. 1, 477; 2, 413; Hor. C. 2, 19, 19; 1, 10, 18: “est animus vitaï claustra coërcens,holding together the bands of life, Lucr. 3, 396.—
B. Esp. with the access. idea of hindering free motion by surrounding; to restrain, confine, shut in, hold in confinement, repress (freq. and class.): “(amnis) nullis coërcitus ripis,Liv. 21, 31, 11; cf. Ov. M. 1, 342: “(aqua) jubetur ab arbitro coërceri,to be kept in, repressed, Cic. Top. 9, 39 (cf., just before, the more usual arcere, v. arceo, II.); Dig. 43, 22, 1, §§ 6 and 8; “47, 11, 10: impetum aquarum,Curt. 8, 13, 9.—Of pruning plants: “vitem serpentem multiplici lapsu et erratico, ferro amputans coërcet ars agricolarum,Cic. Sen. 15, 52; “so of the vine,Col. 3, 21, 7; 4, 1, 5; Quint. 9, 4, 5; cf. id. 8, 3, 10.—Hence, sacrum (lucum), to trim, clip, Cato, R. R. 139: “quibus (operibus) intra muros coërcetur hostis,Liv. 5, 5, 2: “(mortuos) noviens Styx interfusa coërcet,Verg. A. 6, 439; cf.: “Tantalum atque Tantali Genus coërcet (Orcus),Hor. C. 2, 18, 38: “carcere coërcere animalia,Plin. 10, 50, 72, § 141: “Hypermnestra ... gravibus coërcita vinclis,Ov. H. 14, 3; cf.: eos morte, exsilio, vinclis, damno coërcent, Cic. Off. 3, 5, 23: “aliquem custodiā,Dig. 41, 1, 3, § 2: “Galliae Alpibus coërcitae,Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 5: “miles coërcitus in tot receptis ex potestate hostium urbibus,Liv. 36, 24, 7.—Poet.: Messapus primas acies, postrema coërcent Tyrrhidae juvenes, hold together, i. e. command, lead on, Verg. A. 9, 27.—
II. Trop.,
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    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.208
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.31
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.342
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.477
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.643
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.226
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.439
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.27
    • Horace, Satires, 1.3.79
    • Horace, Satires, 1.3.134
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 293
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.67
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.11
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.35
    • Tacitus, Germania, 25
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 4
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.43
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 91
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.396
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.954
    • Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon, 5.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 27.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 31, 43
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 32, 27.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 32
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 5.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 31
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 36, 24
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.1
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.22
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.22
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 15
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.21
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.5
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.76
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.5
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 2.28
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 3.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 4.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 1.20
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 29
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.8
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.21.7
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 4.1.5
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 8.13.9
    • Cicero, Topica, 9.39
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