tenebamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →teneo, tenere, tenui, tentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
hold, keep; comprehend; possess; master; preserve; [tenere memoria => remember];; represent; support;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...inflammares nostros animos: somnum isto loco vix tenebamus." Fiducia igitur appareat et constantia, utique si auctoritas subest. CLVI..."Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...nempe hoc effecerit, ut ea, quae ante explanationem tenebamus, relinquamus. Ergo id est convenienter naturae vivere, a natura..."