tendent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tendo, tendere, tetendi, tensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch/spread/extend; distend; aim/direct weapon/glance/steps/course; strive;; pitch tent, encamp; pull tight; draw (bow); press on, insist; exert oneself;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...cerui pastae serpente medullae,non puppem retinens Euro tendente rudentisin mediis echenais aquis oculique draconum 675quaeque sonant feta..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...SALUTEM Quid est hoc, Lucili, quod nos alio tendentes alio trahit et eo unde recedere cupimus impellit? quid..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...alii, totoque erat agmine murmur. e quibus ingenti tendentes bracchia voce 'pone age nec titulos intercipe, femina, nostros..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnia in fidem et clementiam populi Romani permitteret, tendente. dum aguntur, classis Cn. Octaui Samothracam est adpulsa..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ingressi, manus ad eos, qui in classe erant, tendentes, suppliciter uitam orabant; et cum scaphas concurrere undique..."Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat propositum. ceterum in aduersum uentum nequiquam eos tendentes prope terram lux oppressit, et regii, qui praeerant custodiae..."Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...facto undique in muros manus pro se quisque tendentes consonante clamore nominatim Quinctium orare, ut opem ferret..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Libye Phrygio placuisse magistro), cum procul ex alto tendentes uela carinae ancipites tenuere animos, sociosne malorum an ueherent..."