detraxerat
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. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...acies semper victor narrabat opimas, sive catenatos Bromio detraxerat Indos, seu clusam magna Babylona refregerat hasta, seu Pelopis..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...huic hamis consertam auroque trilicem loricam, quam Demoleo detraxerat ipse victor apud rapidum Simoenta sub Ilio alto, donat..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...sive, ut alii tradidere, Fortunae Ferentino in oppido detraxerat gestabatque velut magno operi sacrum. interim Piso apud aedem..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quam virtus deserebat. et Germanicus quo magis adgnosceretur detraxerat tegimen capitii orabatque insisterent caedibus: nil opus captivis, solam..."