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
- L
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..."