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
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..."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..."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..."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..."