obtenderant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obtendo, obtendere, obtendi, obtentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch/spread before/over; hide, envelop, conceal; plead as an excuse;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...manibus subducere Graium proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis, et potes in totidem classem convertere nymphas..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...tantum foedarum volucrum supervolitavit ut nube atra diem obtenderent. accessit dirum omen, profugus altaribus taurus disiecto sacrificii apparatu..." - G
Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...patientiam Caesar, humilitatem senatus. Nec puduit rationem turpitudini obtendere, egregiam quidem pulchramque rationem, ut exemplo Pallantis praemiorum..."