conpressio

compressĭo ( conp- ), ōnis, f. [com primo], a pressing together, compression.

I.

Prop.

A.

In gen.:

aurum compressione coactum,

Vitr. 7, 8, 4; Oros. 7, 6.— With gen.:

ventris,

Gell. 16, 3:

musculorum,

Scrib. Comp. 84.—

B.

Esp.,

1.

An embracing: artae amantūm, * Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 64. —

2.

Copulation, Arn. 2, 93; Hyg. Fab. 187; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 34.—

II.

Trop., of diction, the compression of an expression, Cic. Brut. 7, 29; v. Ellendt. ad h. l.—

B.

A suppression, repression:

bellorum civilium,

Oros. 7, 6:

corporalium cupiditatum,

Ambros. in Psa. 48, Serm. 19, § 19.