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coegit

coegit is a Latin form of cogo, meaning “gather together; compel”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 195 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.2: Die constituta causae dictionis Orgetorix ad iudicium omnem suam familiam, ad hominum milia decem, undique coegit, et omnes clientes obaeratosque suos, quorum magnum numerum habebat, eodem conduxit; per eos ne causam diceret se eripuit.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.18: … ae sibi ad rem publicam administrandam HS CLXXX et argenti pondo XX milia, tritici modium CXX milia polliceri coëgit. Quas Caesari esse amicas civitates arbitrabatur, his graviora onera iniungebat praesidiaque eo deducebat et …

Seneca the Younger, De Constantia Sapientis 18.3: … odo Priapi dabat, aliter atque aliter exprobrans armato mollitiam; haec ipse perlucidus, crepidatus, auratus. Coegit itaque illum uti ferro, ne saepius signum peteret: ille primus inter coniuratos manum sustulit, ille ceruicem …

All forms of cogo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.