pressisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →premo, premere, pressi, pressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
press, press hard, pursue; oppress; overwhelm;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Phario gestasset rege cadauer,nec Iuba Marmaricas nudus pressisset harenasPoenorumque umbras placasset sanguine fuso 310Scipio, nec sancto caruisset..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...maris moles creuisset in astra 625ni superum rector pressisset nubibus undas.non caeli nox illa fuit: latet obsitus aerinfernae..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aliquando in eloquentia nomen, nisi illum Ciceronis umbra pressisset. [56,2] Etiamnunc illo uerbo utebantur antiqui..." - L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...potuisset ille lacrimas alienas compescere, nisi prius pressisset suas. XVI. M. Antonius avus meus, nullo minor nisi..."