contenderat
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;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...cognita filii morte animi debilitarentur militum. Quo contenderat, pervenit iisque locis castra ponit, ut neque circumiri multitudine adversariorum..."Timotheus
Cornelius Nepos
"...auctoritati, velut in sua manu esset fortuna. Quo contenderat, pervenit, eodemque ut sequerentur, ad Timotheum et Iphicratem nuntium..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...rogi perfundat sanguine flammas. inde Mago procul infensam contenderat hastam: ille astu subit, at tremibunda supervolat hasta..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Calibus, cum Uolturnus amnis traicientem moratus esset, contenderat; inde proxima nocte sex milia peditum, equites trecentos, qui praesidio..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...terram, penetratumque ad amnem [Visurgin], quo Caesar classe contenderat. in positae dein legiones, vagante fama submersas; nec fides..."