detineas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detineo, detinere, detinui, detentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
detain, hold; hold off, keep away (from); hold prisoner; retain; occupy;; hold/keep back (from use); keep, cause to remain; reserve; delay end, protract;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...esse multos scio, ut peregrinatione te uel longa detineas uel amoena delectes, ut rationum accipiendarum diligentia, patrimonii administratione..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...censere dolendi!incitat heu! planctus; potius fugientia ripasflumina detineas rapidis aut ignibus obstes,quam miseros lugere vetes. tamen..."
