urguentem
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...attonitam rapitur matrona per urbemuocibus his prodens urguentem pectora Phoebum:'quo feror, o Paean? qua me super aethera..."
Liber Undecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...attemptata tui, sic te pro turribus altis uidimus urguentem nubes, laetique benignum fulmen et auditos proauis agnouimus ignes..."Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...parmaque Menoeten proterrebat agens trepidis uestigia retro passibus urguentem, donec defecit iniqua lapsus humo, pariterque manus distractus..."