protendens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →protendo, protendere, protendi, protensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch out/forth, extend, distend; hold out; prolong, lengthen;; stretch out/forth, extend, distend; hold out; prolong; lengthen;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...verbera contraque insidias iniquorum quasi brachia et manus protendens, ne qua in re adversa et repentina incursio inparatis..." - A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: "perendie" inquit "sese sistant illo in loco". Atque..." - P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...alta remittunt. ille humilis supplex oculos dextramque precantem protendens 'equidem merui nec deprecor' inquit; 'utere sorte tua. miseri..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...proelia tollit, ostenditque umeros latos alternaque iactat bracchia protendens et verberat ictibus auras. quaeritur huic alius; nec quisquam..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...caesariem fulgentem clare, quam multis illa dearum levia protendens brachia pollicita est, qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...orbus rupibus incursat foedataque bracchia tabo in mare protendens gentem exsecratur Achivam atque ait: "o si quis referat..." - P
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...adflixit. iam [in] morte[m] centurioni ferrum destringenti protendens uterum "ventrem feri" exclamavit multisque vulneribus confecta est. Haec..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...coniugem et innoxiam liberorum aetatem miserarentur—, simul filium protendens, modo singulis modo universis commendans, postremo fletu praepediente adsistenti..."