detraheret
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...deinde perventum est, ut Fortunata armillas suas crassissimis detraheret lacertis Scintillaeque miranti ostenderet. Vltimo etiam periscelides resolvit..." - M
IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...haec tamen omnia ultima fortunae nomina, ut mihi detraheret, induit sibi. venit in harenam homo nec sceleratus..." - P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...immanitatem ausuri sint; etiam bonos metu sequi. detraheret potius senatui quem perornavisset infamiam tanti flagitii et relinqueret incertum..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Cappadociam hibernavit. at Vologaesi ad Corbulonem missi nuntii, detraheret castella trans Euphraten amnemque, ut olim, medium faceret; ille..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...differret, Caesaris non reciperet, cum de potestate nihil detraheret. pulsi Italia mathematici; cautum severe ne equites Romani ludo..."
