detinebat
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. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...postquam intellexit irasci se, sicut sustulerat manum suspensam detinebat et stabat percussuro similis; interrogatus deinde ab amico..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...quod ripis erat impeditis, consecutus equitatus novissimos proelio detinebat. Huic suos Caesar equites opposuit expeditosque antesignanos admiscuit CCCC..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...haec causa quod elephantorum magnitudo multitudoque militum animos detinebat in terrore. Cui uni rei tamen invenerat remedium. Namque..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Certe processerat litus, multaque animalia maris siccis harenis detinebat. Ab altero latere nubes atra et horrenda, ignei spiritus..."