urgerentur
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. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dies deinde pauciores et segnius. etenim cum multis urgerentur rebus, nulla eos res aeque ac uigiliae conficiebant, Romanis..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ipsa in uerum uertit; nam cum fame ferroque urgerentur nec spes ulla superesset sisti in spem honorum erant..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fecimus, tutelae deinde nostrae duximus, cum Africo bello urgerentur. Pro his impertitis furiosum iuvenem sequentes oppugnatum patriam nostram..."