distringat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distringo, distringere, distrinxi, districtus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch out/apart; detain; distract; pull in different directions;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...custodiantur, et non exiguum militum numerum haec cura distringat. Interim publicis servis paucos milites addidi. Video tamen periculum..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...mediocritas villae, modus ruris, qui avocet magis quam distringat. Scholasticis porro dominis, ut hic est, sufficit abunde tantum..."