contraxerat
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. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Agesilaus
Cornelius Nepos
"...potissimum hostis impetum facturos, omnis suas copias eo contraxerat. At Agesilaus in Phrygiam se convertit eamque prius depopulatus..." - C
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...depulsus cum ea manu, quam contraxerat, locum deligit talem, ut neque circumiretur ab hostibus neque praeteriret adversarius, quin..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...multos ex iis quos forum, curia, sermo mecum contraxerat, nox abstulit et iunctas sodalium manus copuatas interscidit: mirer..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...salvum et felicem habeam. Iam Phoebus breviore via contraxerat arcum lucis, et obscuri crescebant tempora somni, iamque suum..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...mala privatim doleam necesse est, omnem illam, quam contraxerat, perdit opinionem: iam inimici triumphant, iam passim locuntur: 'illa..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...infectus variarum caede ferarum, iamque dies medius rerum contraxerat umbras et sol ex aequo meta distabat utraque..." - P
Ars Amatoria III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...trepidi corde micante sinus. Iamque dies medius tenues contraxerat umbras, Inque pari spatio vesper et ortus erant: Ecce..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Synnada peruenerant et Eumenes ad Sardis undique exercitum contraxerat. ibi Romani cum et Solouettium, ducem Gallorum, ~Synnades adlocutus..."