presses
Dictionary entries
- Entry →presso, pressare, pressavi, pressatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
press, squeeze;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...atque aliter exponere, et narrationes cum breviter ac presse tum latius et uberius explicare consuerant; interdum Graecorum scripta..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicere an moderate, laete an severe, abundanter an presse, aspere an leniter, magnifice an subtiliter, graviter an urbane..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...magistro prouidendum erit! Non enim satis est dicere presse tantum aut subtiliter aut aspere, non magis quam phonasco..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Vareno Homullus callide acriter culte, contra Nigrinus presse graviter ornate. Censuit Acilius Rufus consul designatus inquisitionem Bithynis dandam..."