urges
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Dictum oportuit. LYS. Non possum, ita instas; urges quasi pro noxio. DOR. Scio, innoxiu's. LYS. Audacter quam..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...adclamant, odium pecuniaeindicunt. Hunc illorum adfectum cum videris, urge, hoc preme, hoc onera, relictis ambiguitatibus et syllogismis..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...donec 'ohe iam' ad caelum manibus sublatis dixerit, urge: crescentem tumidis infla sermonibus utrem. cum te servitio longo..."