contraxi
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...invitus leges, dicito 'ego mihi hoc contraxi', teque inter illos numera quos uxor magno ducta ambitu torquet, inter..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tyrannidis adfectatae: "ubi sunt arma? quos contraxi satellites"? LV. Neque haec nego esse dicenda et ipsis utendum..."IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...vobis adhibitis rogabo. non ego aes alienum luxuria contraxi, nec profusus in vitia fortuna nostra male usus..."V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...affectum, non exitum sed voluntatem. pro duobus pretia contraxi, pro duobus maria conscendi, pro duobus genua tenui. rogo..."