urguerer
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;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pontum Symplegas inanem et statura redit. iam Phoebum urguere monebat non idem Eoi color aetheris, albaque nondum 720lux..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro,successus urguere suos, instare fauorinuminis, inpellens quidquid sibi summa petentiobstaret gaudensque..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...montis cumulata videbis insuper esse aliis alia atque urguere superna in statione locata sepultis undique ventis; tum poteris..."de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...ferarum vero nec generosarum quidem praemordere et urguere proiectos. Elephanti leonesque transeunt, quae impulerunt; ignobilis bestiae pertinacia..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...accipitrem penna trepidante columbae, ut solet accipiter trepidas urguere columbas. usque sub Orchomenon Psophidaque Cyllenenque Maenaliosque sinus gelidumque..."