retineas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →retineo, retinere, retinui, retentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
hold back, restrain; uphold; delay; hold fast; retain,preserve;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
Epistola ad Caesarem I
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...vindices, quoque modo contra advorsum consulem beneficia populi retineas, indigna virtute tua cogites. Sin in te ille animus..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quando talis es, maneas in sententia et retineas arma te hortor, neu prolatandis seditionibus, inquies ipse..."