urgebatur
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. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...prope orbe terrarum undique se suosque exigente fortuna urgebatur, tamen morte tristius ratus Macedoniae etiam possessione pelli, dilectu..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...magistratus gloriae triumphique erant; populus militia atque inopia urgebatur; praedas bellicas imperatores cum paucis diripiebant: interea parentes..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...inermibus et effeminatis tantum facinus consociaturum; dein, postquam urgebatur, confessionis gloriam amplexus interrogatusque a Nerone, quibus causis..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...atque illum, quia male administratae provinciae aliorumque criminum urgebatur, culpam invidia velavisse, frustra conterrita uxore, quam etsi nocentem..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...globus capta ex hostibus huc vel illuc raptabat. urgebatur maxime septima legio, nuper a Galba conscripta. occisi..."