presso

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

presso, āre, v. freq. a. [premo],

to press (poet.): vomicam, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 11: pressatur pede pes, mucro mucrone, viro vir, Furius Antias ap. Macr. S. 6, 3: cineres ad pectora pressant, Ov. M. 8, 538: ubera manibus pressanda, i. e. to be milked , id. ib. 15, 472; cf.: ubera palmis, Verg. E. 3, 99: uvam pede, Prop. 3, 15 (4, 16), 18: molliter ubera ovium, Ambros. Virg. 3, 4, 17.

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