retentat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →retento, retentare, retentavi, retentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hold fast/back, keep hold of; restrain/detain, keep in check/place; retain;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Sabbura belli;ipse caua regni uires in ualle retentat:aspidas ut Pharias cauda sollertior hostisludit et iratas incerta..." - M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pugnat ab alta 585puppe Catus Graiumque audax aplustre retentat,terga simul pariter missis et pectora telistransigitur: medio concurrit..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...caeli status posterga sequitur: quisquis exilem iacens animam retentat, uiuidos haustus leuis concipiat. ite, ferte depositis opem: mortifera..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...agunt. at ille, qualis turbido rector mari ratem retentat, ne det obliquum latus, et arte fluctum fallit, haud..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sibila colla arduus attollens; pars vulnere clauda retentat nexantem nodis seque in sua membra plicantem: tali remigio navis..." - T
Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...eant. Quo magis festinantes videt dictator, eo impensius retentat agmen ac sensim incedere iubet. Etrusci contra, principio exciti..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...praecipites Germani in amnem aguntur. Civilis dum fugientis retentat, agnitus petitusque telis relicto equo transnatavit; idem Veraci effugium..."