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
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...verbera contraque insidias iniquorum quasi brachia et manus protendens, ne qua in re adversa et repentina incursio inparatis..."Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: "perendie" inquit "sese sistant illo in loco". Atque..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."