impellunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →impello, impellere, impuli, impulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive/persuade/impel; urge on/action; push/thrust/strike against; overthrow;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...Quorundam quasi ad incendium currentium misereberis: usque eo impellunt obuios et se aliosque praecipitant, cum interim cucurrerunt..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...vota properant, cruda adhuc studia in forum impellunt, et eloquentiam, qua nihil esse maius confitentur, pueris induunt adhuc..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pectus confudit sensus; pietas incerta uagatur discordantque metus, impellunt credere Parcae. turbidus interea ruptis uenientia portis agmina belligeri..."Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...secreto velluntur pectora morsu,udaque turgentes impellunt lumina guttas,ceu super Aegaeas hiemes abeuntis amici 5vela sequar spectemque..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Chimaeram, urbis opus, triplici pubes quam Dardana versu impellunt, terno consurgunt ordine remi; Sergestusque, domus tenet..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...intravit agmen saltum, tum extremas arborum succisarum impellunt; quae alia in aliam, instabilem per se ac male haerentem..."