To gather togither: to set or bring in order: to constreine: to compell or force: to make licour thicke: to milke a beast. In vnum aliquid cogere. Quint. To bring togither. Nodo comas coegn. Sen. She trussed vp her haire. Dispersa cogere. Cic. To bring togither things dispersed. Ius ciuile in certa genera cogere Cic. Nubes coguntur. Lucret. Clomdes gather thitke. Cogere oues intro. Plaut. To driue togither and bring into the house or folde. Pccudes cogere stabulis. Virg. Cogere agmen. Cic. Vide AGMEN. Acies in ptælia cogere. Virg. To fet in aray to sight. Vndique auxilia cogere. Virg. To gather togither. Coegerat viginti cohortes ex finitimis regionibus. Cæsar. Cogere copias in vnum locum. Cæs. To bring togither. Confilium cogi de aliquo. Quint. When a couniaile is gathered about a thing. Milites cogere. Cæs. To gather souldiouts. Cogere Senatum. Cic. To assemble or call togither. Socios ad locum aliquem cogere. Virg. Cogere ad veiba Propert. To assemble or talke about a matter. Cogere pecuniam cinitatibus statuarum nomine. Creer. To gather and leuie money. Ait enim, dum Gabinio pecuniam Posthumus cogeret ex decumis imperatoium, pecuniam sibi coegisse. Cic. Aurum cogere in vsus humanos. Horat. Stipem cogere. Cic. Vide STIPS. Stipendium cogere. Ci. To gather money to pay soulniours. Vites cogendæ in sulcum. Virg. Must be brought. Cogere in ordinem. Plin. iun. To abate ones pride: to make content with condition, and not ercell other, or be singular. Cogere. Terent. To compell or constraine. Mori me denique cogis. Virg. Audaces cogimur esse metu. Ouid. Si res coget. Cic. Acerbè cogi. Cic. Conuitio aliquorum cogi. Cic. Fame cogi. Cic. Prece cogere aliquem. Horat. Ratione aliquem cogere. Cic. Cogere arua vt pareant colono. Virg. In semihoræ curriculum cogere. Cic. To restraine to halse an houres space and no more. Cogere vi & minis. Cic. Ad arma cogere aliquem. Ouid. To force to fight. Cogere ad lachrymas. Plaut. To make to weepe. Ad munera cogi. Ouid. Ad prælia cogi. Virg. Cogere in cruciatum. Plaut. Cogitur in cuisum verberibus. Plin. With striking is driuen to tunne. Vis ventorum in portum nauim coegit. Cic. Drone. In Senatum cogi. Cic. To be coustrained to come into the Senate. Cogitur mulier in thalarnos alicuius, cui inuita nubit. Valer. Flac. She is forced to mary. Cogialiquò. Horar. To be driuen to a place. Cogere in mollitiem lanæ, Plin. To make as sost as wooll. Apes bis grauidos cogunt sœtus. Virg. Make houy twise. Verba cogere in pedes. Ouid. To make verses. Cogere. To make thicke. Virg. Frigore mella cogithyems. Maketh thicke. In nubem cogitur aer. Virg. Gathereth thicke into a cloude. Cogere lac in duritiam. Plin. To make thicke and hard as in a crudde or creame. Cogi in magnitudinem milij. Plin. To be brought to the bignesse of a graine of Milium. Cogere cuneos. Virg. To driue in wedges. Equum cogere verbere. Cland. To beare formard. Cogere Cic. To conclude and inferre necessarily: to prouby stroug argument. Cogi in angustum. Teient. To be driuen to a streight. Coguntur cames holosteo. Plin. Vulera quoque conglutinat, nam & carnes coguntur, additâ Peeces of fleshe gathered togither by the strength of this hearbe added or put to them.

I. Lit.

A. In gen. (constr. as a verb of motion with in and acc., or with adv. of direction): cogantur (oves) intro, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 15; Verg. E. 3, 98; cf. pecus, id. ib. 3, 20: oves stabulis, id. ib. 6, 85: nubes in unum locum, Lucr. 6, 274; cf. id. 6, 464; 6, 734: oleam, to collect, Cato, R. R. 64, 1; 65, 2; 144, 1.—So of the collecting together of fruits, also in Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Col. 11, 2, 70; 12, 3, 9: talenta ad quindecim Coëgi, received, collected, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94 Ruhnk.; so Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, 120; id. Att. 6, 2, 8; id. Rab. Post. 11, 30: Orgetorix ad judicium omnem suam familiam undique coëgit, Caes. B. G. 1, 4; cf.: multitudinem hominum ex agris, id. ib: concilium, id. ib. 7, 77; Verg. A. 11, 304: concilium Hypatam, Liv. 36, 26, 1: bucina cogebat priscos ad verba Quirites, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—So of the collecting of troops ( = contrahere), Caes. B. C. 1, 15 fin.; cf. Sall. J. 95, 1: copias in unum locum, Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 6, 10 al.: exercitum in unum, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 2: multitudinem in unum, Sall. J. 80, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 4: in classem, Liv. 36, 3, 5: milites in provinciam, id. 43, 15, 7: exercitum Dyrrhachium, Sall. H. 1, 31 Gerl.: ad militiam aliquos, id. J. 85, 3: acies in proelia, Verg. A. 9, 463: auxilia undique, id. ib. 8, 7.—And of the calling together of a senate: quam cito senatum illo die coëgerim, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 39, 6 al.: dum senatus cogeretur, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 7: coguntur senatores non pignoribus, sed gratiā, id. Phil. 1, 5, 12; Liv. 1, 48, 3 al.; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—And of a single senator: cur in senatum hesterno die tam acerbe cogerer? Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 11 sq.: ex duabus syllabis in unam cogentes, contracting, combining, Quint. 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt: quod ex omnibus partibus cogitur, id. 5, 14, 9.—

B. Esp.

1. Of liquids, to thicken, condense, curdle, coagulate: mella frigore (opp. calore remittere), Verg. G. 4, 36: lac in duritiam, Plin. 23, 7, 64, 126; cf. Ov. M. 8, 666: fel sole, Plin. 29, 6, 37, 116: liquorem in nivem, id. 2, 39, 39, 105; 2, 42, 42, 111.—Similarly: coacta alvus, hard fœces, Cels. 2, 8; 2, 3 al.; so, vestis coacta, fulled, Plin. 8, 48, 73, 192. —

2. Of places, to draw together or contract into a narrow place: Italia coacta in angustias, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 400: saltus in arctas coactus fauces, Liv. 22, 15, 11.—

3. Agmen, milit. t. t., to bring up the rear (cf. claudo, I. B. 2.), Liv. 34, 28, 7; 44, 4, 12; 35, 27, 15; 42, 64, 5; 42, 10, 8; Curt. 3, 3, 25 al.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen.: hac re in angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur copiae (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.), Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2: me ex comparato et constituto spatio defensionis in semihorae curriculum coëgisti, have confined, restricted, Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 6: in eam desperationem, ut, Suet. Caes. 20: verba in alternos pedes, i. e. to write in elegiac verse, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 10.—More freq.,

B. Esp. with acc., inf., ut, ad, in or absol., to urge one to any action, to force, compel, constrain (syn.: impello, compello, adigo).

(a). With acc.: coactus legibus Eam uxorem ducet, Ter. And. 4, 4, 41; cf. id. Ad. 1, 1, 44; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 36: vis cogendae militiae, Liv. 4, 26, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.—

(b). With inf: omnia vertere, Lucr. 5, 831; id. 5, 1167; 6, 837: mori me, Verg. E. 2, 7: plerasque ad officium redire, Nep. Milt. 7, 1; Liv. 38, 13, 2: neque cogi pugnare poterat, id. 45, 41, 4 et saep.—

(g). With ut: vi coepi cogere ut rediret, Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 26; so id. And. 4, 1, 30; id. Ad. 5, 3, 65; Lucr. 1, 976; 6, 127; Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Cic. de Or. 3, 3, 9; id. Fam. 5, 6, 1; Nep. Alcib. 4, 5; Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 2.—With subj. without ut, cf. Ter. And. 4, 4, 41 supra.—

(d). With ad: ingratiis ad depugnandum omnes, Nep. Them. 4, 4: ad lacrimas, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 57: ad proelia, Verg. A. 12, 581: Samnites belloque ad bellum cogere, Liv. 10, 11, 11; 23, 1, 4; 4, 22, 4; 34, 18, 2; Tac. A. 2, 21.—(e) With in: in lacrimas, Ov. Ib. 204; Quint. 3, 8, 23; Auct. B. G. 8, 38: aliquem in deditionem, Liv. 43, 1, 1; Sen. Clem. 1, 1.—(z) With acc.

1. With double acc.: cogere aliquem aliquid, or cogi aliquid, Quint. 11, 1, 22: quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 44: quod sua quemque mala cogebant, Liv. 3, 7, 8; 6, 15, 13; 23, 10, 6: cogi aliquid pro potestate ab tribuno, to be extorted, id. 4, 26, 10: quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames! Verg. A. 3, 56.—

2. With acc. of the thing: ne ad id, quod natura cogeret, ipse quoque sibi acceleraret, Nep. Att. 22, 2: quod cogere se putat posse, rogare non sustinet, Vell. 2, 81, 1: adulterium, Ov. A. A. 2, 367.—

3. Sometimes as philos. t. t. = colligo, concludo, to infer, conclude: ex quibus id quod volumus efficitur et cogitur, Cic. Leg. 2, 13, 33; so id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 7, 4.—

4. Cogere agmen, to be the last (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.; v. I. B. 3. supra): ut nec duces simus, nec agmen cogamus, Cic. Att. 15, 13, 1; cf.: sic ordinandus est dies omnis, ut tamquam cogat agmen, Sen. Ep. 12, 8.—Hence,

1. coactum, i, P. a. subst., a thick, fulled covering, a mattress (cf. coactilis), Caes. B. C. 3, 44 fin.—

2. coactus, a, um, P. a., forced, constrained, unnatural: quod absurdum et nimis coactum foret, Gell. 1, 4, 7; cf. id. 16, 14, 3: lacrimae, Verg. A. 2, 196; Ov. M. 6, 628.—

3. coactē, adv. (prop. in a contracted manner; hence),

a. Shortly, quickly: coactius quid factum et festinantius, Gell. 10, 11, 8.—

b. Accurately, strictly: coactius interpretari verbum, Gell. 19, 2.—

c. In a forced, constrained manner, Tert. Bapt. 12; id. Anim. 42 al.