urguentur
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. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...femur exclamare coegit. conuiuae miseri interea somnoque fameque urguentur. tandem illa uenit rubicundula, totum oenophorum sitiens, plena quod..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...lecta dolis sedes: gemini procul urbe malignis faucibus urguentur colles, quos umbra superni montis et incuruis claudunt iuga..."