premendos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →premo, premere, pressi, pressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
press, press hard, pursue; oppress; overwhelm;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo. ostia iamque domus patuere ingentia centum sponte sua vatisque..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tertia legione Ballistam Letumque montes obsedit, et premendo praesidiis angustos saltus eorum commeatus interclusit, inopiaque omnium rerum..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Papirius Cursor iuga Samni perlustrando an Luceriam premendo obsidendoque et lacessendo uictorem hostem depulsum ab Romanis ceruicibus iugum..."