cŏ-hĭbĕo, ui (perf. subj. cohibessit, Lucr. 3, 444 Lachm.), ĭtum, 2, v. a. [habeo].
I To hold together , to hold , contain , confine , embrace , comprise (class.; syn. contineo): omnes naturas ipsa (universa natura) cohibet et continet, Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35; Lucr. 3, 441 sq.; 1, 517; 1, 536: (nubes) ut fumus constare nequirent, Nec cohibere nives gelidas et grandinis imbres, id. 6, 107: aliquid in se, id. 2, 1031; cf. Cic. Fat. 9, 19: at Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, Verg. A. 3, 424: semen occaecatum, Cic. de Sen. 15, 51: nodo crinem, Hor. C. 3, 14, 22: namque marem cohibent callosa (ova) vitellum, id. S. 2, 4, 14: auro lacertos, to encircle , Ov. H. 9, 59: bracchium togā, Cic. Cael. 5, 11: deos parietibus, Tac. G. 9.—
B Trop. (very rare): sed interest inter causas fortuito antegressas, et inter causas cohibentis in se efficientiam naturalem, Cic. Fat. 9, 19.—
II With the access. idea of hindering free motion, to hold , keep , keep back , hinder , stay , restrain , stop , etc. (in a lit. sense in prose rare, but trop. very freq.).
A Prop.: cohibete intra limen etiam vos parumper, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 1: nec muris cohibet patriis media Ardea Turnum, Verg. A. 9, 738: carcere ventos, Ov. M. 14, 224: ventos in antris, id. ib. 15, 346: cervos arcu, to stop , poet. for to kill , Hor. C. 4, 6, 34: nec Stygiā cohibebor undā, id. ib. 2, 20, 8: tempestatibus in portibus cohiberi, Auct. B. Afr. 98: cohiberi in vinculis, Curt. 6, 2, 11: Pirithoum cohibent catenae, Hor. C. 3, 4, 80: claustra cohibentia Janum, id. Ep. 2, 1, 255: ab aliquā re, Liv. 22, 3, 9; Tac. A. 1, 56: sanguis spongiā in aceto tinctā cohibendus est, Cels. 8, 4; cf. Plin. 27, 11, 69, § 93: alvum, id. 29, 3, 11, § 49: milites intra castra, Curt. 10, 3, 6: aquilones jugis montium, id. 8, 9, 12.—
B Trop.
1 Cohibere aliquid or cohibere se, to stop something (or one’s self ), to hold in check , to restrain , limit , confine , keep back , repress , tame , subdue (syn.: contineo, refreno, arceo, coerceo): motus animi perturbatos, Cic. Off. 2, 5, 18: furentis impetus crudelissimosque conatus, id. Phil. 3, 2, 5; cf.: furorem alicujus, id. ib. 5, 13, 37: temeritatem, id. Ac. 1, 12, 45: gaudia clausa in sinu tacito, Prop. 2 (3), 25, 30: iras, Verg. A. 12, 314: pravas aliorum spes, Tac. A. 3, 56: ac premeret sensus suos, id. ib. 3, 11: bellum, Liv. 9, 29, 5: malum, Tac. A. 6, 16: sumptus, Arn. 2, p. 91: violentias effrenati doloris, Gell. 12, 5, 3: altitudinem aedificiorum, Tac. A. 15, 43: (provinciae) quae procuratoribus cohibentur, i. e. are ruled , id. H. 1, 11: non tu te cohibes? be moderate in grief , * Ter. Heaut. 919; so Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Gell. 4, 9, 3.—
β With quominus : vix cohibuere amici, quominus eodem mari oppeteret, Tac. A. 2, 24.— Pass. : ne flumine quidem interjecto, cohiberi quominus, etc., Tac. A. 2, 10.—
γ With inf., Calp. Ecl. 4, 20 (but in Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 60; id. Caecin. 23, 66; Auct. B. G. 8, 23, prohibere is the true reading).—
2 Aliquid ab aliquā re or aliquo, to keep something from something (or somebody ), to ward off : manus ab alieno, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 12: manus, oculos, animum ab auro gazāque regiā, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 66: effrenatas suas libidines a liberis et a conjugibus vestris, id. Mil. 28, 76: adsensionem a rebus incertis, id. N. D. 1, 1, 1.
X —Hence, cŏhĭbĭtus , a, um, P. a., confined , limited , moderate : dicendi genus, Gell. 7, 14, 7.— Comp. : habitudo cohibitior, Aus. Grat. Act. 27, 2.