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
- C
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...cognita filii morte animi debilitarentur militum. Quo contenderat, pervenit iisque locis castra ponit, ut neque circumiri multitudine adversariorum..." - C
Timotheus
Cornelius Nepos
"...auctoritati, velut in sua manu esset fortuna. Quo contenderat, pervenit, eodemque ut sequerentur, ad Timotheum et Iphicratem nuntium..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Calibus, cum Uolturnus amnis traicientem moratus esset, contenderat; inde proxima nocte sex milia peditum, equites trecentos, qui praesidio..." - P
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..."