Citations:ago

Latin citations of ago

Verb: I do, act, make

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• 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎^[1]:

  Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.

  "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of."

• Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Genesis 16:5:

  dixitque Sarai ad Abram inique agis contra me […]

  "And Sarai said to Abram, You do a wrong against me."

• Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 32:7:

  viriliter agite et confortamini nolite timere nec paveatis regem Assyriorum […]

  "Act strongly and be courageous. Do not fear nor tremble before the king of Assyria"

Verb: I drive, conduct

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• 1877, Sophocles (in translation), Electra, in Aeschyli et Sophoclis: Tragoediae et Fragmenta (Paris: Institutiae Franciae Typographo)

  Interea Orestes postremus omnium ultimo loco equos agebat, in fine certam spem victoriae ponens.

  "Meanwhile, Orestes had been driving in last place and holding his horses back, putting his trust in the finish."