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..."- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."