detineat
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. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...lyra, differ opus nec te facundi scaena Catulli detineat cultis aut elegia comis; sed lege fumoso non aspernanda..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...plurima qua summi fulget imago ducis. Nec te detineat miri radiata colossi quae Rhodium moles uincere gaudet opus..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quando res exiget, nihil nos detineat nec impediat quominus parati simus quod quandoque faciendum est statim facere. Vale..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...tradendus: lectio illum carminum obleniat et historia fabulis detineat; mollius delicatiusque tractetur. 2. Pythagoras perturbationes animi lyra componebat..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...ulla, quod aiunt, deductione. Nemo illa intercipiat, nemo detineat; nemo in eo, quod daturus es, gratiam suam facere..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...scientia, est tamen quae nos speciosa rerum uanitate detineat. Hoc quoque quaerentibus remittamus quis Romanis primus persuaserit nauem..."XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...conlata meditatio, ut sollicitet aspectu, sermone detineat. audio subinde exactas mero noctes, ~tua mulier~ convivia, perditas amantium rixas..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...Vnam esse Aeduorum civitatem, quae certissimam Galliae victoriam detineat; eius auctoritate reliquas contineri; qua traducta locum consistendi Romanis..."