urgete
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. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mulieres, quos tu parasitos loquere? MESS. Quod te urget scelus, qui huic sis molestus? CYL. Quid tibi mecum..."Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...dictum; nam qui instat" inquit "alicui eumque properans urget opprimereque eum studet festinatque, aut contra de cuius periculo..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...caelum caligine et altas sufficiunt nubis paulatim conveniundo; urget enim quoque signiferi super aetheris aestus et quasi densendo..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...formidine torpens; sed magis in vita divom metus urget inanis mortalis casumque timent quem cuique ferat fors..."Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...discurrit aranea tela, tam leue nec bombyx pendulus urget opus. Crassior in facie uetulae stat creta Fabullae, crassior..."Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illi tormentorum esse eo quod perpetua illam sollicitudo urget ac verberat, quod sponsoribus securitatis suae non potest credere..."Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...pervenit. [In] Contrarium autem huic adfectum summa infelicitas urget: nemo sibi gratus est qui alteri non fuit..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Tibi sis. MIL. Te volo. SYNC. At onus urget. MIL. At tu appone et respice ad me. SYNC..."