urgeat
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dixerit iteret, ut argumentum ratione concludat, ut interrogando urgeat, ut rursus quasi ad interrogata sibi ipse respondeat..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nihil fero"; ut si quis ei quem urgeat fames venenum ponat cum cibo et aut abstinere eo quod..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...Masinissae sit Iugurthamque ob scelera invidia cum metu urgeat, regnum Numidiae ab senatu petat. Avidus consul belli gerendi..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...paveant, ubi pertimuerint inpune contemni: dum superstitio urgeat, adiciendos ex duce metus sublatis seditionis auctoribus. promptum ad asperiora..."