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
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...deinde perventum est, ut Fortunata armillas suas crassissimis detraheret lacertis Scintillaeque miranti ostenderet. Vltimo etiam periscelides resolvit..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
