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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - T
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..." - L
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..." - P
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..."