throttle (v.) Copy link Outline 1. strangŭlo2. suffŏco, 13. praefŏco, 14. expr. by a phr. • throttle (v.): 1. strangŭlo: to t. (any one) by difficulty of breathing, fauces spiritus difficultate s., Cels. 2, 10: a swollen throat t.s the utterance, fauces tumentes strangulant vocem, Quint. 11, 3, 20: v. choke, strangle. 2. suffŏco, 1: to t. his father, s. patrem, Cic. Mur. 29, 61. 3. praefŏco, 1: to t. the passage of the breath, p. animae viam, Ov. Ib. 556. 4. expr. by a phr.: oblidere fauces, Tac. A. 5, 9: Cic.; interpremere, Pl. Rud. 3, 2, 41; elidere, Ov. M. 12, 142: to t. two snakes, elidere geminos angues, Virg. Aen. 8, 289.