tenderet
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Parthia natus esset, arcum infans statim tenderet; si in Germania, protinus puer tenerum hastile vibraret; si avorum nostrorum..."de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...languor. Nec ad hoc tanta hominum cupiditas tenderet, nisi naturalem quandam uoluptatem haberet lusus iocusque. Quorum frequens usus..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...facta canentemfors et magniloquo non posthabuisset Homero,tenderet et torvo pietas aequare Maroni. Cur magis incessat superos..."Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...turbine contum Sauromates falcemque Getes arcumque Gelonus tenderet et flexae Balearicus actor habenae quo suspensa trahens libraret vulnera..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...bracchia vellet tendere, non habuit, quae bracchia tenderet Argo, conatoque queri mugitus edidit ore pertimuitque sonos propriaque exterrita..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...bracchia vellet tendere, non habuit, quae bracchia tenderet Argo, conatoque queri mugitus edidit ore pertimuitque sonos propriaque exterrita..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...conversis cohortibus ut una post, altera ante signa tenderet, ita coronam hostium dextro sinistroque cornu mediam dividit..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...dato. LIV Si mihi Picena turdus palleret oliva, tenderet aut nostras silva Sabina plagas, aut crescente levis traheretur..."