urgentur
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...hausit. 'quae scelerum facies? o virgo, effare; quibusue urgentur poenis? quis tantus plangor ad auras?' tum vates..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...crebris; lauit ater corpora sanguis, uersaque in obnixos urgentur cornua uasto cum gemitu; reboant siluaeque et longus Olympus..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Tusculanis; excipit aliquanto maior ab exercitu Romano. Utrimque urgentur Latini: nec impetus Tusculanorum decurrentium ex superiore loco sustinent..."