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
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...fulta, etiamsi parvo sive nullo fatalis incommodi conflictu urgeantur, sua tamen scaevitate et voluntario impetu in assidua delicta..."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..."