detractavere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detracto, detractare, detractavi, detractatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
refuse (to undertake/undergo), decline, reject, evade, recoil from;; disparage/belittle, speak/write slightingly of; reduce/depreciate/detract from;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quam supersint; nisi creditis, qui exercitu incolumi pugnam detractavere, eos duabus partibus peditum equitumque in transitu Alpium amissis..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostem lacessit. Ubi illi, conscientia quid abesset virium, detractavere pugnam, crevit extemplo Romanis animus, et pro victis habebant..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...adigit, occisis Mogontiaci tribunis, pulso castrorum praefecto, qui detractaverant: Classicus corruptissimum quemque e deditis pergere ad obsessos iubet..."