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egere

egere is a Latin form of ago, meaning “drive, do, act; discuss”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 118 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.32: … unias suo etiam privato compendio serviebant; dictitabant enim se domo patriaque expulsos omnibus necessariis egere rebus, ut honesta praescriptione rem turpissimam tegerent. Accedebant ad haec gravissimae usurae, quod in bel …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 1.9.14: … omnibus eget. Sapienti et manibus et oculis et multis ad cotidianum usum necessariis opus est, eget nulla re. Egere enim necessitatis est, nihil necesse sapienti est.

All forms of ago (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.