nitamur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nitor, niti, nisus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
press/lean upon; struggle; advance; depend on (with abl.); strive, labor;
pl. pres. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...philosophorum monent, quam ut in nobis tantum ipsis nitamur, alia autem omnia, quae extra nos extraque nostrum animum..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...referat. Proponamus oportet finem summi boni ad quem nitamur, ad quem omne factum nostrum dictumque respiciat; veluti navigantibus..."