nitantur
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. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...syllogismos, et plerumque scripti et voluntatis aequo nitantur, nisi quod hic tertius aliquando coniecturam accipit: "quid senserit legis..."IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...foedet pudenda canities, ut sanguine membra vacuata vix nitantur ad gressus, ut hae laudatae manus nec ad cotidianae..."