contraxisse
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;
perf. act. infin.
Examples
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Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...adventu esse auditum et adversarios illuc suas contraxisse copias. Mutat consilium et, quoniam imprudentes adoriri non posset, flectit..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...parentes malorum odimus: et est conditoribus urbium infame contraxisse aliquam perniciosam ceteris gentem, qualis est primus Iudaicae superstitionis..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...contentum fore ea poena quam sibi ipsi contraxissent. Nocte insequenti legati responsa ad suos referunt, obsides conficiunt. Concurrunt..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uenerant, in custodiam coniecit. hoc audito Perseus contraxisse eum necessitatem ratus ad bellandum utique cum Romanis, ad reuocandum..."