angimur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ango, angere, anxi, anctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Bio/medical
choke, throttle, strangle; press tight; distress, cause pain, vex, trouble;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...humanarum aerumnarum materiam. Nam, si omnia alia quibus angimur compares, mortes, aegrotationes, metus, desideria, dolorum laborumque patientiam..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...sibi nectunt corda moras? cur immemores famaeque larisque angimur aut pariet quemnam haec ignavia finem?' 'Dicam..."