detinetur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...deus. VI. Et Laberius in Necyomantia: dum diutius detinetur, nostri oblitus est. VII. "Dubium porro" inquit..."VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...dimittitur cadaver in rogos, qua corpus exanime detinetur amplexu? dii immortales, quam saeva, quam crudelis est ipsa cunctatio..."de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...potitus esset, dum Caesar muneribus dandis in Italia detinetur, … quo facilius praesidia contra compararet, Pompeius in fidem uniuscuiusque..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...raptarum frugum argumentum panis Iudaicus nullo fermento detinetur. Septimo die otium placuisse ferunt, quia is finem laborum tulerit..."Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...ministrat. Reliqua pars lateris huius servorum libertorumque usibus detinetur, plerisque tam mundis, ut accipere hospites possint. Ex alio..."