detractaveritis
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. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quam supersint; nisi creditis, qui exercitu incolumi pugnam detractavere, eos duabus partibus peditum equitumque in transitu Alpium amissis..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostem lacessit. Ubi illi, conscientia quid abesset virium, detractavere pugnam, crevit extemplo Romanis animus, et pro victis habebant..."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..."