thrust/press against; struggle against, offer resistance; make a stand
Latin word, found 59 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 3.222: versaque in obnixos urguentur cornua vasto
Vergil, Aeneid 4.406: obnixae frumenta umeris; pars agmina cogunt
Tacitus, Annales 1·268: … is decoris, quorum Otho familia consulari, Senecio liberto Caesaris patre genitus. ignara matre, dein frustra obnitente, penitus inrepserat per luxum et ambigua secreta, ne senioribus quidem principis amicis adversantibus, mulier …
All forms of obnitor