retinebitur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →retineo, retinere, retinui, retentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
hold back, restrain; uphold; delay; hold fast; retain,preserve;
sg. fut. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tamen nec ultra puerilis annos retinebitur nec in his ipsis diu. Neque enim gestum oratoris componi ad similitudinem..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...terra volarent, quanta conploratio, quanti planctus fuerint: 'retinebitur, stabit, laborabit!' At, si diis placet, legatus noster tum maxime..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...quod in civitate nostra et vetabitur semper et retinebitur. multos secreta Poppaeae mathematicos pessimum principalis matrimonii instrumentum, habuerant..."