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
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..."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..."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..."