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
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Dictum oportuit. LYS. Non possum, ita instas; urges quasi pro noxio. DOR. Scio, innoxiu's. LYS. Audacter quam..."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..."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..."