premetur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →premo, premere, pressi, pressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
press, press hard, pursue; oppress; overwhelm;
sg. fut. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...limina uestra mortifera cum dote subit. quibus illa premetur per somnum digitis! nam quae terraque marique adquirenda putas..."XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...nocendi contentio, et in vicem legis ira succedit, premetur quidem obnoxia infirmitas, et paucorum dominio subiecta plebes triste..."