continuisses
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contineo, continere, continui, contentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
secure, maintain, sustain; fasten/hold in position; retain, keep safe, preserve;; hinder, contain/shut in/confine; stay; restrain/hold back; comprise/form basis;; keep/hold/hang together/fast; surround, enclose, contain, limit; concentrate;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...omnium iudicio Fortuna, adhuc videbaris sinu eum hominem continuisse, qui munere tuo tantam venerationem receperat, ut, quod raro..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...Erycis quae possidet arces; sunt quoque, qui lacrimas continuisse negant. Sed tamen hoc melius, quam si Phaeacia tellus..." - P
Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...ille deos; praebent spectacula capti: Vix lacrimas Venerem continuisse putant. Non vultus texisse suos, non denique possunt Partibus..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uocari prohiberet. nihil aliud a caede ac dimicatione continuisse homines nisi patientiam magistratuum, quod cesserint in praesentia furori..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uelut ignorantem, monet quo statu sit res: metum continuisse ad eam diem Hispanorum animos, quia procul Romani abessent..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...inrumpendum; transactumque ea temeritate bellum foret, ni duces continuissent impetum militum. Ceterum, quia multitudo sua commeatibus gravis..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...vanitatem usus, expeditionem aut victoriam vocabat victos continuisse; ne laureatis quidem gesta prosecutus est, sed ipsa dissimulatione famae..."