intendebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →intendo, intendere, intendi, intentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
hold out; stretch, strain, exert;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...manum habebant qua Uticam diripuerant, iterque in Hispaniam intendebant et erant numero circiter mille. Itaque celeriter nocturno tempore..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...clamitare; praefectique [et] tribuni paria disserentes ardorem exercitus intendebant. tum Ostorius, circumspectis quae impenetrabilia quaeque pervia, ducit infensos..."