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
- M
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..." - M
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..."