nitimur
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. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...fortiter illam repellimus nec toto ad salutem impetu nitimur, deinde quia illa quae a sapientibus viris reperta sunt..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...varias habent formas. Alia est cuius verbis nitimur, alia cuius voluntate: alias nobis, cum ipsi nullam habeamus, adiungimus..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...sensit habenas frenaque in effusa laxa iacere iuba! nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata; sic interdictis imminet aeger..."