contrahe
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contraho, contrahere, contraxi, contractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
enter into/upon relationship/agreement/business/marriage/loan/battle, deal with;; bring/draw together/in, assemble, collect/gather; unite in friendship/alliance;; sadden/depress/diminish/contract/tighten; cause/provoke (disease/war); commit;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...metire; simul et quod gaudes et quod times contrahe. Est autem tanti nihil diu gaudere ne quid..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nobis te, ut facis, fortem praesta et sarcinas contrahe; nihil ex his quae habemus necessarium est. Ad legem..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...immo castrasset. Hic te exitus manet nisi iam contrahes vela, nisi, quod ille sero voluit, terram leges. Poteram..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...Erato, labores differ atque ingens opus in minores contrahe gyros, tuque regnator lyricae cohortis da novi paulum mihi..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...comminus armis. verte omnis tete in facies et contrahe quidquid sive animis sive arte vales; opta ardua pennis..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...quoque, qui spectas post nos, tua contrahe crura, si pudor est, rigido nec preme terga genu! Sed nimium..."Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...isto. Gaudes quod me venturum esse polliceor, sed contrahes frontem, cum adiecero 'ad paucos dies': neque enim diutius..."