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oppressus

oppressus is a Latin form of opprimo, meaning “press down, crush; overwhelm, suppress; take by surprise”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.46.5: ac tanta fuit in castris capiendis celeritas, ut Teutomatus, rex Nitiobrigum, subito in tabernaculo oppressus, ut meridie conquieverat, superiore corporis parte nudata vulnerato equo vix se ex manibus praedantium militum eriperet.

All forms of opprimo (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.