Compesco, compescis, compéscui, compéscere. Festus. Topasture togither: to keepe straite: to bridle: to keepe vnder: to sloppe: to staunch or quench: to mittigate: to assmage.Auro aliquem compescere.Val. Flac.With money to keepe from doing that be would doe.Catenis compescere aliquem.Ouid.To tie short in chaines.Compescere aliquem compedibus.Ouid.To setter or gyue.Culpam ferro compescere.Virg.To punish.Curas compescere.Ouid.To asswage or mittigate.Damna compescere cantu.Stat.With finging to mittigate the losse he hath.Impiam dextram compescere. Sen. To stay.Dolores compescere. Tibul. To asswage sorrow.Equum celerem arcto fræno compescere. Tibul. To stay or holde backe a horse with the bridle.Famem compescere. Sen. To alay hunger.Flammam mero compescere.Ouid.To quench the flame with wine.Flammas amoris, nefásque compescere. Sen. To represse or asswage the rage of loue.Fluctus compescere.Ouid.To asswage or alay.Ripis compescere fluuium. Sil. To keepe in with bankes.Frondes vere nouo compescere. Valer. Flac. To cut or shred boughes.Fugam alicuius compescere. Claud. To stay.Furores compescere.Ouid.To represse ones rage.Gaudia compescere lachrymis. Claud. To cease ioy with weeping. Ignes. Ouid.To quench.Compescere incendia.Plin. iun. Idem. Ira lconum compescitur.Cic.Is swaged.Digito compesce labellum. Prouerbium apud Iuuenalem. Keepe sisence.Luxuriantia compescere. Horat. To cut those thinges that grow ouer ranckly.Mentem compescere, Horat.To refraine his minde or affection.Mores rabidos compescere.Ouid.To asswage the sierce maners of men.Timor compescit officium.Ouid.Feate stayeth from doing that I should doe.Pennas alicuius compescere.Ouid.To stay his flight.Compescere tumentes populos.Plin. iun.To represse or keepe vnder prowde peopleQuerelas compescere. Lucret. To stay complaintes.Ramos fluentes compescere.Virg.To cut off.Risum compescere. Horat. To refraine laughing.Sitim compescere vnda. Oui. To quench thirst with water: to drinke water:Tristitiam compescere.Ouid. Verba compescere Sen. Compescere vitem. Colum. To cut and keepe a vine that it spread not too farte.Compesce in illum iniustè dicere.Plaut.Leaue to say ill of him.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
compesco, pescui (pescitum, Prisc. p. 887 P.), 3, v. a. [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). I.Lit.: ramos fluentes, i. e.
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, 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.—II.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.—(b). With inf.: cave malum et compesce in illum dicere injuste,