distendit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distendo, distendere, distendi, distentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch (apart); spread out; distend; extend; rack; detract, perplex;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...seco? Per. Vbi lubet: dispennite hominem divorsum et distendite. Pyrg. Obsecro hercle te, ut mea verba audias prius..."Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ferocisincrementa timens non primis robora ripisinposuit, medios pontem distendit in agros. 140ac, nequid Sicoris repetitis audeat undis,spargitur..."Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...stomachi tormenta cum effervescit merum ac viscera ipsa distendit. Tunc tamen utcumque tolerabile est, dum illi..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...segetem imbecillam ac uirentes exigit arbores aut distendit in ramos aut in altum erigit quam spiritus intentio..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sanguinis quondam capax tumidi uigor pulmonis arentes fibras distendit, ardet felle siccato iecur totumque lentus sanguinem auexit uapor..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...custodiebantur, Publilius in Samnio substitit adversus Caudinas legiones. Distendit ea res Samnitium animos, quod nec ad Luceriam..."