nixi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nitor, niti, nixus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
press/lean upon; struggle; advance; depend on (with abl.); strive, labor;
gen. sg. perf. part.gen. sg. perf. part.nom. pl. perf. part.voc. pl. perf. part. - Entry →nixus, nixus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
straining; the efforts of childbirth (pl.), travail;
gen. sg.
Examples
- T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...summissioribus, tertiis magis et quartis, postremis etiam genu nixis, fastigatam, sicut tecta aedificiorum sunt, testudinem faciebant. hinc quinquaginta..." - T
Liber XLIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...introducti. Ii de magistratuum Romanorum auaritia superbiaque conquesti, nixi genibus ab senatu petierunt, ne se socios foedius spoliari..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem I
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...tantam gratiam solus rerum potiretur, contra eum nixi, sua ipsius consilia disturbaverunt. Quo tibi, imperator, maiore cura fideque..."