urgebantur
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. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...spes, pertinacius de integro capessunt pugnam. acie media urgebantur acriter a quinta legione: aduersus laeuum cornu..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romanus restabat; ab sinistro cornu et a fronte urgebantur barbari et cohortes a tergo instantes pauidi respiciebant..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aciem uenienti ex aduerso hosti. cornua ancipiti proelio urgebantur; eques leuisque armatura uelites circumductis alis in latera incurrebant..."