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Novum opus facere me cogis ex veteri, ut post exemplaria scripturarum toto orbe dispersa quasi quidam arbiter sedeam (...).
You order me to make a new work out of the old one, so that after the copies of the Scriptures dispersed across the globe I preside as some kind of arbitrator (...).
ne pulcherrimam prope totius Galliae urbem, quae praesidio et ornamento sit civitati, suis manibus succendere cogerentur
lest they should be compelled to set fire with their own hands to the fairest city of almost the whole of Gaul, which is a protection and ornament to the state
“cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cogo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
cogo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
to extort money from the communities: pecuniam cogere a civitatibus
to assemble the senate: senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
to concentrate all the troops at one point: cogere omnes copias in unum locum
to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere