retractante
Dictionary entries
- Entry →retracto, retractare, retractavi, retractatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
undertake anew; draw back, be reluctant; reconsider; withdraw;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exercitum plebs, nullo qui per aetatem ire posset retractante. Prosequuntur coniuges liberique, cuinam se relinquerent in ea urbe..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...contempto metuendum effecit; vos mussantes et retractantes verbis et vatum carminibus pacem optatis magis quam defenditis, neque intellegitis..."