adtenderent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adtendo, adtendere, adtendi, adtentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/stretch towards; apply; attend/pay (close) attention to, listen carefully;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...facilitatem,temeritas fortitudinem. (9) Haec nos similitudo coegit adtendere et distinguerespecie quidem uicina, re autem plurimum inter..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...paulatim deinde hoc, quod stupemus, animus ausus diligenter adtendere in arcana naturae sacrum misit ingenium, et ex adsiduis..."