urgeantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →urgeo, urgere, ursi, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
press/squeeze/bear hard/down; tread/traverse continually; push/shove/thrust;; spur on, urge; press hard in attack/pursuit, beset, follow hard on heels of;; hem in; threaten by proximity; press verbally/argument/point; follow up;
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...fulta, etiamsi parvo sive nullo fatalis incommodi conflictu urgeantur, sua tamen scaevitate et voluntario impetu in assidua delicta..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...laborantia: LVI. quod adfectant quoque, tamquam inventionis copia urgeantur maiorque vis eloquentiae ingruat quam quae emitti faucibus possit..."