Opprimo, ópprimis, pen. cor. oppressi, oppressum, opprimere. Cic.To oppresse: to griene: to thrust harde: to keepe or shut in: to take sodenly: to ra a women: to preuent: to gette of one by force to confesse a whether be will or no. Os opprime. Ter. Stoppe his mouth. Opprimi ære alieno.Cic.To be in great debt: to be ouercharged with debt.Fluctus opprimit hanc animam.Ouid.Opprimere animos formidine.Cicer.To make men sore afraide.Opprímere in ipso articulo, Vide Articulus in ARTVS.Opprimere bellum exortÛ.Cic.To represse or quie: a warre begun.Opperite & opprimere contumelijs aliquem.Cic.To oyne one many reprochfull wordes: to rayle at very much.Obrui & opprimi crimmibus & restibus.Cic.Opprimitur dolor patientia.Cic.Pacience uaileth sorow.Dolore opprimi. Cic To be ouercome with sorow.Vnda flammas opprimit. Sen. Conficere atque opprimere hostes.Cic.Nisi orientem illum ignem oppressissent.Liu.If they had not quenched that fire beginning.Opprimere improuiso.Liu.To take or come vpon sodainely at vnwares.Inprouiso taneus morbus hominÊ oppressit. Cic.Sodainly the man fell into so great a sicknesse.Opprimere incautos.Liu.To oppresie or come vppon vnwares.Inuidia opprimi.Cic.To haue great ill will and displeasure of men: to be in great hatred.Iudicio opprimere.Cicer.To confounde by indgement and lawe.Iaculo oppressit Ieonem.Val. Flac.He fodenly strake the lyon with a dart.Mentionem aliquam opprimere.Liu.To make a thing to be no more spoken of.Plerosque nec opinantes oppressimus, qui occisi, captíque sunt.Cic.We came sodainly vpon the most part of them.Nox certamina cœpta oppressit.Liu.The night comming on slayed the contentions begun.Occasionem opptimere.Plaut.To make one forges an oportunitie.Onere opprimi. Cicero. To be ouercharged with the barden.Orationem alicuius opprimere.Cic.To make one leane his communication and talke: to represse ones ralke.Pede opprimere. Caro. To tresde downe with his foote.Penuria victus opprimít eum. Horat. Extinguere & opprimere potentiam alieuius.Cic.To quaile and represse the immoderate power of one.Rempublicam opprimere armis.Cic.Ruina opprimi.Cic.To be slaine with a fall of a thing.Somnus oppressit eum.Terent.Sleepe came vpon him: he fell on sierpe.Oppressus graui somno.Liu.Being fallen into a great and deepe sleepe.Terra opprimi.Cic.To be buried in the earch. Hæc te tertia iam epistola antè oppressit, qum to schedulam aut literam.Cic.This is the chirde epistle that you haue receyued, since you wrote one worde to me.Opprimere aliquem consilio.Cic.To go beyond one in wit d counsaile.mere & abstondere, Cicer. Quò studiosius ab ipsis opprimitur & absconditur, eò magis eminet & apparet. Opprimere. pro extundere vel violenter impeare. Verum sit. Plaut.But he wrested it out of me by forte.Opp Participium. Oppressed: violently wronged: taken vnd Thrusted harde. vt. tas. Liu.A citie sodainely striken in great feare.Oppresius prædonibus, & captus est.Cicer.He was onerlayde with theeues and taken.Oppressus est, nsa, sed tempore. Cic.Vinctus & oppre catems. Son. Casu acerbo oppressus. Catul. Oppressus totius corporis doloribus.Cic.Oppressus vi.Cic.Holden vnder by force.Repressum magna ex parte, non oppressum aliquem relinquere.Cic.Oppressa amicitia.Cic.Friendship vtterly broken of.Arces oppressæ. Luc. Castles taken by force.Carmina oppressa silent. Lucret. Herba oppressa.Ouid.An hearbe troden downe.Iuuencus oppressus lupo.Stat.Memoria oppressa.Plin. iun.Memory ouercharged.Pectus oppressum. Sen. Oppressa captáque Respublica.Cic.Oppressus & afflictus Senatus.Cic.Vita oppressa iacet. Lucret.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
opprĭmo (obp-), essi, essum, 3, v. a. [ob-premo], to press against, press together; to press down (class.; syn. obruo). I.Lit.: voluit deus ora loquentis Opprimere,
to close
, Ov. M. 3, 295: oculos, to press together, i. e. close the eyes, sc. of a dying person, Val. Max. 2, 6, 8: fauces manu, Suet. Calig. 12: flammam in ore, to repress, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 122 (Trag. v. 437 Vahl.).— To press down: taleam pede,
to press into the ground
, Cato, R. R. 45; Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 27: opprimi ruinā conclavis,
, id. Alcib. 3, 3: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae, quam oppressae esse videantur, Cic. Lael. 21, 78: aliquem iniquo judicio, id. Quint. 2, 7: intolerandam potentiam,
to overthrow
, id. Rosc. Am. 13, 36: aliquem, to crush one with false accusations, Liv. 2, 52; cf.: insontem oblato falso crimine, id. 1, 51: quaestionem, id. 26, 15: si oppressa foret secura senectus (i. e. securus senex), Juv. 10, 75: litteras,
to utter indistinctly
,
to mumble
, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—In gen., to have the upper hand, get the best of it, be victorious, Plaut. Mil. 4, 5, 10.—E.To load, overwhelm, bear down, overcome: opprimi aere alieno, Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 8: mvidiā, id. ib. 2, 2, 4: totius corporis doloribus, id. Fam. 9, 14, 3: metu, Liv. 24, 33: timore, Caes. B. G. 4, 15: senatus oppressus et afflictus, Cic. Red. in Sen. 7, 18.—F.To fall upon, surprise, take by surprise, come upon unexpectedly, seize, catch (syn.: adorior, invado): occasionem opprimere,
to seize
,
embrace
, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 15: imprudentem, Ter. And. 1, 3, 22: incautos, Liv. 26, 12: Antonium mors oppressit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 91, 213: ne subito a me opprimantur (sc. interrogando), id. ib. 2, 4, 67, 150: oppressi luce copias instruunt, Auct. B. G. 8, 14: rostra,
to make one's self master of
,
occupy
, Cic. Clu. 40, 110.—G.To bury, hide, conceal, suppress: quod quo studiosius ab ipsis opprimitur et absconditur, eo magis eminet et apparet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 41, 121: iram, Sall. J. 72, 1: ita ejus rei oppressa mentio est, Liv. 23, 22: infamiam, Just. 12, 13, 10. —H.To force a woman, commit a rape upon (late Lat.), Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 12; 14, 32; id. Gen. 34, 2; id. Ezech. 2, 2; 11.