detracturus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detraho, detrahere, detraxi, detractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drag/pull/strip/take down/away/off; remove; exclude, omit, cut out; subtract;; detract (from in speech), disparage; lessen, cause diminishment/detriment;; detach, dislodge (troops); draw (into action); demolish; abstract, derive;; draw off (blood); promote discharge of; force down, induce to come down;
nom. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...ordinem redegerat carcerem intrauit, ignominiam ipsi loco detracturus; neque enim poterat carcer uideri in quo Socrates erat..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...perductus esset precibus, tum etiam adulescentia sua excusat, detracturus alioqui plurimum auctoritatis sibi, in causa praesertim suspecta..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...iniuriam si quid adiecturus sibi, non si quid detracturus, fuit. CXVI. Et Servius sulpicius insignem non inmerito famam..."
