contendebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contendo, contendere, contendi, contentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch, draw tight, make taut; draw/bend (bow/catapult); tune; stretch out;; compete/contend (fight/law), dispute; compare/match/contrast; demand/press for;; strain/tense; make effort, strive for; speak seriously/passionately; assert;; hurl, shoot; direct; travel; extend; rush to, be in a hurry, hasten;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Augustus de pantomimis duobus qui alternis gestibus contendebant, cum eorum alterum saltatorem dixit, LXVI. alterum interpellatorem, et partitione..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...quod non prosit fabella indicat.]Formica et musca contendebant acriter,quae pluris esset. Musca sic coepit prior:"Conferre..."Liber V
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...civitate duo de principatu inter se contendebant, Indutiomarus et Cingetorix; e quibus alter, simul atque de Caesaris legionumque..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...circumsteterant, milites summa vi transcendere in hostium naves contendebant. Quod postquam barbari fieri animadverterunt, expugnatis compluribus navibus..."Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...oppido excursiones faciebant parvulisque proeliis cum nostris contendebant; postea vallo pedum XII in circuitu quindecim milium crebrisque castellis..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...inter se palam de praemiis ac de sacerdotiis contendebant in annosque consulatum definiebant, alii domos bonaque eorum..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...exercitus duces faciebant, crebroque inter se equestribus proeliis contendebant. Huc cum cotidiana consuetudine congressae pabulatoribus praesidio propiore ponte..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...neque legibus neque moribus concessum esse ceteri tetrarchae contendebant, sine dubio autem rex Armeniae minoris ab senatu appellatus..."