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
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...summissioribus, tertiis magis et quartis, postremis etiam genu nixis, fastigatam, sicut tecta aedificiorum sunt, testudinem faciebant. hinc quinquaginta..."Liber XLIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...introducti. Ii de magistratuum Romanorum auaritia superbiaque conquesti, nixi genibus ab senatu petierunt, ne se socios foedius spoliari..."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..."