urguebitis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →urgueo, urguere, 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. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Satura XIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...hodie, contentaque sidera paucis numinibus miserum urguebant Atlanta minori pondere; nondum imi sortitus triste profundi imperium Sicula toruos..."Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...saxis ingentibus, nunc> libramento plumbi grauatum ad terram urguebant, et si qua declinare nequiuerant ictum, pro diruto muro..."