restrain, check, curb
Latin word, found 85 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 3.468: continuo culpam ferro compesce, prius quam
Ovid, Heroides 16.231: Saepe mero volui flammam compescere, at illa
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.313: expulit et saevis compescuit ignibus ignes.
All forms of compesco