distenderes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distendo, distendere, distendi, distentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch (apart); spread out; distend; extend; rack; detract, perplex;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
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..."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..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...simul a portu, unde aditus planior erat, ut distenderent ab apertiore loco hostes, simul per patefactum ruina iter..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...profecti ab urbe uelut in duo pariter bella distenderant curas hominum, simul recordantium quas primus aduentus Hannibalis intulisset..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...reliquo exercitu haud procul moenibus Tusculi considunt ut distenderent hostium copias. Haec celeriter Romam, ab Roma in castra..."