urgentium
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;
gen. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ordo praedictae veritatis explicuit, attulisse me credatis urgentium malorum probationem: de parricidio venit, quod occidere me possum..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...lapidum, [ad hoc] strepitus tumultusque et sonores undique [urgentium], mittit equites [in tumulum] circum prominentem, ut explorarent [insequentesque..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...tamen senatus et opperiendum imperatorem censuit, quod unum urgentium malorum suffugium in tempus erat. At Caesar dedicatis..."