distenderent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distendo, distendere, distendi, distentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch (apart); spread out; distend; extend; rack; detract, perplex;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...atque ipse bibendum porrige quidquid erit; nam si distendere uellet et uexare uterum pueris salientibus, esses Aethiopis fortasse..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...instant sub tempus et omnis impendunt curas denso distendere pingui, quem legere ducem et pecori dixere maritum, florentisque..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...simul a portu, unde aditus planior erat, ut distenderent ab apertiore loco hostes, simul per patefactum ruina iter..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...profecti ab urbe uelut in duo pariter bella distenderant curas hominum, simul recordantium quas primus aduentus Hannibalis intulisset..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...reliquo exercitu haud procul moenibus Tusculi considunt ut distenderent hostium copias. Haec celeriter Romam, ab Roma in castra..."