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surge

surge is a Latin form of surgo, meaning “rise, get up; arise, spring up”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.106: … qui matrem dormire non sinat: Matér, te appello, tú, quae curam sómno suspensám levas, Neque té mei miseret, súrge et sepeli nátum—! haec cum pressis et flebilibus modis, qui totis theatris maestitiam inferant, concinuntur, …

Vergil, Aeneid 3.169: Surge age, et haec laetus longaevo dicta parenti

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.548: Clamarunt satyri 'surge age, surge, pater.'

All forms of surgo (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.