tentum

abs-tĭnĕo, ŭi, tentum, 2, v. a and n. [teneo], to keep off or away, to hold back, to hold at a distance. In the comic writers and Cic. this verb is in most cases purely active, hence constr. with aliquem (or se) re or ab re; the neuter signif. first became prevalent in the Aug. per. = se abstinere.

Act.:

dum ted abstineas nuptā, viduā, virgine, etc.,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 37:

urbanis rebus te,

id. Cas. 1, 1, 13; id. Men. 5, 6, 20; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 132: manus a muliere, Lucil. ap. Non. 325, 32; cf.:

manus abstineant,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 11:

amor abstinendust (apstandust, R.),

id. ib. 2, 1, 30:

me ostreis et muraenis facile abstinebam,

Cic. Fam. 7, 26:

ab alienis mentes, oculos, manus, de Or. 1, 43: manus animosque ab hoc scelere,

id. Verr. 1, 12 fin.:

se nullo dedecore,

id. Fin. 3, 11, 38:

se cibo,

Caes. B. C. 8, 44:

ne ab obsidibus quidem iram belli hostis abstinuit,

Liv. 2, 16:

aliquos ab legatis violandis,

id. 2, 22:

se armis,

id. 8, 2 al. —Hence:

manum a se,

to abstain from suicide, Cic. Tusc. 4, 37 al.

Neutr.: abstinere, to abstain from a thing; constr. with abl., ab, inf., quin or quominus, the gen., or absol.

With abl.:

haud abstinent culpā,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 18 Ritschl:

injuriā,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 72:

fabā (Pythagorei),

id. Div. 2, 58, 119:

proelio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22, 3:

pugnā,

Liv. 2, 45, 8:

senatorio ambitu,

Tac. A. 4, 2:

manibus,

id. Hist. 2, 44:

auribus principis,

to spare them, id. Ann. 13, 14:

sermone Graeco,

Suet. Tib. 71:

publico abstinuit,

did not go out, id. Claud. 36 al. — Impers.:

ne a me quidem abstinuit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171:

ut seditionibus abstineretur,

Liv. 3, 10, 7; so id. 5, 50, 7.—

With ab:

ut ne a mulieribus quidem atque infantibus abstinerent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 47, 5.—

With inf.:

dum mi abstineant invidere,

if they only cease to envy me, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 2; so Suet. Tib. 23.—

With quin or quominus:

aegre abstinent, quin castra oppugnent,

Liv. 2, 45, 10: ut ne clarissimi quidem viri abstinuerint, quominus et ipsi aliquid de eā scriberent, Suet. Gram. 3.—( * e) With the gen. (in Greek construction like the Greek apechesthai tinos):

abstineto irarum calidaeque rixae,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 69 (cf. infra, abstinens).—

Absol.:

te scio facile abstinere posse,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 19:

non tamen abstinuit,

Verg. A. 2, 534.—Esp. in med., to abstain from food:

abstinere debet aeger,

Cels. 2, 12, 2.—Hence, abstĭnens, entis, P. a., abstaining from (that which is unlawful), abstinent, temperate; constr absol. with abl., or poet. with gen.:

esse abstinentem, continere omnes cupiditates praeclarum est,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11:

praetorem decet non solum manus, sed etiam oculos abstinentes habere,

id. Off. 1, 40, 144:

impubi aut certe abstinentissime rebus venereis,

Col. 12, 4, 3:

animus abstinens pecuniae,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 37; so,

alieni abstinentissimus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 8, 5; and:

somni et vini sit abstinentissimus,

Col. 11, 1, 3.— Comp., Auson. Grat. Act. 28.— Sup., Col. and Plin. l. l.— Adv.: abstĭnenter, unselfishly, Cic. Sest. 16, 37.— Comp., Augustin. Mor. Manich. 2, 13.

attendo ( adt-, Dietsch), tendi, tentum, 3, v. a., orig., to stretch something (e. g. the bow) toward something; so only in Appul.: arcum, Met. 2, p. 122, 5.—Hence,

In gen., to direct or turn toward, = advertere, admovere: aurem, Att. ap. Non. p. 238, 10; Trag. Rel. p. 173 Rib. (cf. infra, P. a.):

attendere signa ad aliquid,

i. e. to affix, Quint. 11, 2, 29 (Halm, aptare); so, manus caelo, to stretch or extend toward, App. Met. 11, p. 263, 5:

caput eodem attentum,

Hyg. Astr. 3, 20.—Far more freq.,

Trop.

Animum or animos attendere, or absol. attendere, also animo attendere, to direct the attention, apply the mind to something, to attend to, consider, mind, give heed to (cf.: advertere animum, and animadvertere; freq. and class.)

With animum or animos: animum ad quaerendum quid siet, Pac. ap. Non. p. 238, 15:

dictis animum, Lucil. ib.: animum coepi attendere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28:

quo tempore aures judex erigeret animumque attenderet?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10:

si, cum animum attenderis, turpitudinem videas, etc.,

id. Off. 3, 8, 35:

animum ad cavendum, Nep Alcib 5, 2: jubet peritos linguae attendere animum, pastorum sermo agresti an urbano propior esset,

Liv. 10, 4: praeterea et nostris animos attendere dictis atque adhibere velis, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 238, 11:

attendite animos ad ea, quae consequuntur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 15.—With a rel.-clause as object:

nunc quid velim, animum attendite,

Ter. Phorm. prol. 24.—

Absol.:

postquam attendi Magis et vi coepi cogere, ut etc.,

Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 25:

rem gestam vobis dum breviter expono, quaeso, diligenter attendite,

Cic. Mil. 9:

audi, audi atque attende,

id. Planc. 41, 98; so id. de Or. 3, 13, 50; Phaedr. 2, 5, 6; Juv. 6, 66; 11, 16 al.—With acc. of the thing or person to which the attention is directed:

Glaucia solebat populum monere, ut, cum lex aliqua recitaretur, primum versum attenderet,

Cic. Rab. Post. 6, 14:

sed stuporem hominis attendite,

mark the stupidity, id. Phil. 2, 12, 30; so id. de Or. 1, 35, 161; Sall. J. 88, 2; Plin. Ep 6, 8, 8; Luc. 8, 623 al.: me de invidiosis rebus dicentem attendite. Cic. Sull 11, 33; id. Verr. 2, 1, 10:

Quā re attendo te studiose,

id. Fin. 3, 12, 40:

non attenderunt mandata,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 9, 34; ib. Job, 21, 5; ib. Isa. 28, 23.— Pass.:

versūs aeque prima et media et extrema pars attenditur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 192. —With inf. or acc. and inf. as object: quid futurum est, si pol ego hanc discere artem attenderim? Pompon. ap. Non. p. 238, 17:

non attendere superius illud eā re a se esse concessum,

Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 111.—With a rel.clause or a subjunct. with a particle:

cum attendo, quā prudentiā sit Hortensius,

Cic. Quinct. 20, 63:

Hermagoras nec, quid dicat, attendere nec... videatur,

id. Inv. 1, 6, 8:

forte lubuit adtendere, quae res maxume tanta negotia sustinuisset,

Sall. C. 53, 2:

Oro, parumper Attendas, quantum de legibus queratur etc.,

Juv. 10, 251:

attende, cur, etc.,

Phaedr. 2, prol. 14:

attendite ut sciatis prudentiam,

Vulg. Prov. 4, 1:

Attendite, ne justitiam vestram faciatis etc.,

ib. Matt. 6, 1; ib. Eccli. 1, 38; 13, 10; 28, 30.— With de:

cum de necessitate attendemus,

Cic. Part. Or. 24, 84.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

sermonibus malignis,

Plin. Ep. 7, 26:

cui magis quam Caesari attendant?

id. Pan. 65, 2; Sil. 8, 591:

attendit mandatis,

Vulg. Eccli. 32, 28; ib. Prov. 7, 24:

attendite vobis,

take heed to yourselves, ib. Luc. 17, 3; ib. Act. 5, 35; ib. 1 Tim. 4, 16.—So in Suet. several times in the signif. to devote attention to, to study, = studere:

eloquentiae plurimum attendit,

Suet. Calig. 53:

juri,

id. Galb. 5:

extispicio,

id. Ner. 56.—With abl. with ab (after the Gr. prosechein apo tinos;

eccl. Lat.): attende tibi a pestifero,

beware of, Vulg. Eccli. 11, 35:

attendite ab omni iniquo,

ib. ib. 17, 11; ib. Matt. 7, 15; ib. Luc. 12, 1; 20, 46.—

With animo (ante- and post-class. and rare):

cum animo attendi ad quaerendum, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 79 Rib.: nunc quid petam, aequo animo attendite,

Ter. Hec. prol. 20:

quid istud sit, animo attendatis,

App. Flor. 9: ut magis magisque attendant animo, Vulg. Eccli. prol.; so,

in verbis meis attende in corde tuo,

ib. ib. 16, 25.—

To strive eagerly for something, long for: puer, ne attenderis Petere a me id quod nefas sit concedi tibi, Att. ap. Non. p. 238, 19 (Trag. Rel. p. 173 Rib.).—Hence, attentus, a, um, P. a.

Directed to something, attentive, intent on:

Ut animus in spe attentus fuit,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 3:

Quo magis attentas aurīs animumque reposco,

Lucr. 6, 920:

Verba per attentam non ibunt Caesaris aurem,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 19:

si attentos animos ad decoris conservationem tenebimus,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 131:

cum respiceremus attenti ad gentem,

Vulg. Thren. 4, 17:

eaque dum animis attentis admirantes excipiunt,

Cic. Or. 58, 197:

acerrima atque attentissima cogitatio,

a very acute and close manner of thinking, id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

et attentum monent Graeci a principio faciamus judicem et docilem,

id. ib. 2, 79, 323; 2, 19, 80; id. Inv. 1, 16, 23; Auct. ad Her. 1, 4:

Ut patris attenti, lenonis ut insidiosi,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 172:

judex circa jus attentior,

Quint. 4, 5, 21.—

Intent on, striving after something, careful, frugal, industrious:

unum hoc vitium fert senectus hominibus: Attentiores sumus ad rem omnes quam sat est,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 48:

nimium ad rem in senectā attente sumus,

id. ib. 5, 8, 31:

tum enim cum rem habebas, quaesticulus te faciebat attentiorem,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7:

paterfamilias et prudens et attentus,

id. Quinct. 3:

Durus, ait, Voltei, nimis attentusque videris Esse mihi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 91:

asper et attentus quaesitis,

id. S. 2, 6, 82:

vita,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 44 Matth.:

qui in re adventiciā et hereditariā tam diligens, tam attentus esset,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 48:

antiqui attenti continentiae,

Val. Max. 2, 5, 5.— Comp.: hortor vos attentiori studio lectionem facere, * Vulg. Eccli. prol.—Hence, adv.: atten-tē, attentively, carefully, etc.:

attente officia servorum fungi,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 14;

audire,

Cic. Phil. 2, 5; id. Clu. 3 fin.; id. de Or. 2, 35, 148; id. Brut. 54, 200:

legere,

id. Fam. 7, 19:

parum attente dicere,

Gell. 4, 15:

custodire attente,

Vulg. Jos. 22, 5.— Comp.:

attentius audire,

Cic. Clu. 23:

acrius et attentius cogitare,

id. Fin. 5, 2, 4:

attentius agere aliquid,

Sall. C. 52, 18:

spectare,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 197:

invicem diligere,

Vulg. 1 Pet 1, 22.— Sup.:

attentissime audire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 259.

at-tĭnĕo ( adt-, Dietsch, Weissenb.), tĭnui, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., (so only ante-class. or in the histt.; most freq. in Plaut. and Tac.).

To hold to, to bring or hold near:

aliquem ante oculos attinere,

Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 30.—

To hold or detain at some point (class. retinere), to hold fast, keep hold of, to hold, keep, detain, hold back, delay:

testes vinctos,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 3:

animum,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 17:

lectos viros castris attinere,

Tac. A. 2, 52; 6, 17:

prensam dextram vi attinere,

id. ib. 1, 35; 2, 10; 3, 71 fin.:

cunctos, qui carcere attinebantur, necari jussit,

id. ib. 6, 19; 3, 36 fin.; 12, 68; 13, 15; 13, 27;

15, 57: set ego conperior Bocchum Punicā fide simul Romanum et Numidam spe pacis adtinuisse,

detained, amused, Sall. J. 108, 3:

ad ea Corbulo satis comperto Vologesen defectione Hyrcaniae attineri,

is detained, hindered, Tac. A. 13, 37 fin.; 13, 50; 14, 33; 14, 56 fin.; 16, 19; id. H. 2, 14 fin. —

To hold possession of, to occupy, keep, guard, preserve: Quamque at tinendi magni dominatūs sient, Ter. Fragm. ap. Cic. Or. 47, 157:

ripam Danubii,

Tac. A. 4, 5.—

To stretch out to, to reach to:

nunc jam cultros attinet, i. e. ad cultros,

now he is reaching forth for, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 17.—Hence, of relations of place, to extend or stretch somewhere:

Scythae ad Borysthenem atque inde ad Tanain attinent,

Curt. 6, 2, 9.—

To belong somewhere; only in the third person: hoc (res) attinet (more rare, haec attinent) ad me (less freq. simply me), or absol. hoc attinet, this belongs to me, concerns me, pertains or appertains to me, relates or refers to me; cf. Rudd. II. p. 209; Roby, § 1534 (the most usu. class. signif. of the word).

Attinet (attinent) ad aliquem:

negotium hoc ad me attinet,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 51:

num quidnam ad filium haec aegritudo attinet?

id. ib. 5, 1, 24:

nunc quam ad rem dicam hoc attinere somnium,

id. Rud. 3, 1, 19; id. Most. 1, 3, 4:

Quid istuc ad me attinet?

id. Poen. 3, 3, 24:

Quid id ad me attinet?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 136, and id. ib. 4, 3, 58:

quod quidem ad nos duas attinuit,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 9 et saep.:

comperiebam nihil ad Pamphilum quicquam attinere,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 64; 1, 2, 16:

Scin tu... ad te attinere hanc Omnem rem?

id. Eun. 4, 6, 6; id. Ad. 1, 2, 54; 2, 1, 32; 3, 1, 9; id. Phorm. 3, 1, 17:

nunc nil ad nos de nobis attinet,

Lucr. 3, 852; 4, 30:

vobis alio loco, ut se tota res habeat, quod ad eam civitatem attinet, demonstrabitur,

in respect to that city, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5:

quod ad me attinet,

id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 1; so id. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 1, 2 al.:

quod ad provincias attineret,

Liv. 42, 10; 23, 26 al.:

tamquam ad rem attineat quicquam,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 27 al.:

sed quid istae picturae ad me attinent?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 36: Do. Hae quid ad me? Tox. Immo ad te attinent:

et tuā refert,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 27:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi, Aliena ut cures eaque nil quae ad te attinent?

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 24:

cetera quae ad colendam vitem attinebunt,

Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38.—And with nunc = ad hoc tempus (eccl. Lat.): Quod nunc attinet, vade, and for this time (Gr. to nun echon), Vulg. Act. 24, 25.—

Attinet (attinent) aliquem: neque quemquam attinebat [p. 196] id recusare, Cic. Quinct. 19: de magnitudine vocis nihil nos attinet commonere, Auct. ad Her. 3, 11, 20:

in his, quae custodiam religionis attinent,

Val. Max. 1, 1, n. 14.—

Hoc attinet (haec attinent), and more freq. attinet with an inf. as subject ( act. and pass.), it concerns, it matters, is of moment, is of consequence, is of importance: ea conquisiverunt, quae nihil attinebant, Auct. ad Her. 1, 1, 1:

nec patitur Scythas... Parthum dicere, nec quae nihil attinent,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 12:

de quo quid sentiam, nihil attinet dicere,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

nihil enim attinet quemquam nominari,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:

quia nec eosdem nominari adtinebat,

Liv. 23, 3, 13:

nec adtinuisse demi securim, cum sine provocatione creati essent, interpretabantur,

id. 3, 36; 2, 41; 6, 23; 6, 38; 34, 3; 36, 11;

37, 15: Quid attinet tot ora navium gravi Rostrata duci etc.,

Hor. Epod. 4, 17 al. —And in pregn. signif., it is serviceable, useful, or avails for, etc.:

quid attinuit cum iis, quibuscum re concinebat, verbis discrepare?

Cic. Fin. 4, 22, 60:

eā re non venit, quia nihil attinuit,

id. Att. 12, 18:

nec victoribus mitti adtinere puto,

Liv. 23, 13:

sin (frumenta) protinus usui destinantur, nihil attinet repoliri,

Col. 2, 21, 6.

attendo ( adt-, Dietsch), tendi, tentum, 3, v. a., orig., to stretch something (e. g. the bow) toward something; so only in Appul.: arcum, Met. 2, p. 122, 5.—Hence,

In gen., to direct or turn toward, = advertere, admovere: aurem, Att. ap. Non. p. 238, 10; Trag. Rel. p. 173 Rib. (cf. infra, P. a.):

attendere signa ad aliquid,

i. e. to affix, Quint. 11, 2, 29 (Halm, aptare); so, manus caelo, to stretch or extend toward, App. Met. 11, p. 263, 5:

caput eodem attentum,

Hyg. Astr. 3, 20.—Far more freq.,

Trop.

Animum or animos attendere, or absol. attendere, also animo attendere, to direct the attention, apply the mind to something, to attend to, consider, mind, give heed to (cf.: advertere animum, and animadvertere; freq. and class.)

With animum or animos: animum ad quaerendum quid siet, Pac. ap. Non. p. 238, 15:

dictis animum, Lucil. ib.: animum coepi attendere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28:

quo tempore aures judex erigeret animumque attenderet?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10:

si, cum animum attenderis, turpitudinem videas, etc.,

id. Off. 3, 8, 35:

animum ad cavendum, Nep Alcib 5, 2: jubet peritos linguae attendere animum, pastorum sermo agresti an urbano propior esset,

Liv. 10, 4: praeterea et nostris animos attendere dictis atque adhibere velis, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 238, 11:

attendite animos ad ea, quae consequuntur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 15.—With a rel.-clause as object:

nunc quid velim, animum attendite,

Ter. Phorm. prol. 24.—

Absol.:

postquam attendi Magis et vi coepi cogere, ut etc.,

Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 25:

rem gestam vobis dum breviter expono, quaeso, diligenter attendite,

Cic. Mil. 9:

audi, audi atque attende,

id. Planc. 41, 98; so id. de Or. 3, 13, 50; Phaedr. 2, 5, 6; Juv. 6, 66; 11, 16 al.—With acc. of the thing or person to which the attention is directed:

Glaucia solebat populum monere, ut, cum lex aliqua recitaretur, primum versum attenderet,

Cic. Rab. Post. 6, 14:

sed stuporem hominis attendite,

mark the stupidity, id. Phil. 2, 12, 30; so id. de Or. 1, 35, 161; Sall. J. 88, 2; Plin. Ep 6, 8, 8; Luc. 8, 623 al.: me de invidiosis rebus dicentem attendite. Cic. Sull 11, 33; id. Verr. 2, 1, 10:

Quā re attendo te studiose,

id. Fin. 3, 12, 40:

non attenderunt mandata,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 9, 34; ib. Job, 21, 5; ib. Isa. 28, 23.— Pass.:

versūs aeque prima et media et extrema pars attenditur,

Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 192. —With inf. or acc. and inf. as object: quid futurum est, si pol ego hanc discere artem attenderim? Pompon. ap. Non. p. 238, 17:

non attendere superius illud eā re a se esse concessum,

Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 111.—With a rel.clause or a subjunct. with a particle:

cum attendo, quā prudentiā sit Hortensius,

Cic. Quinct. 20, 63:

Hermagoras nec, quid dicat, attendere nec... videatur,

id. Inv. 1, 6, 8:

forte lubuit adtendere, quae res maxume tanta negotia sustinuisset,

Sall. C. 53, 2:

Oro, parumper Attendas, quantum de legibus queratur etc.,

Juv. 10, 251:

attende, cur, etc.,

Phaedr. 2, prol. 14:

attendite ut sciatis prudentiam,

Vulg. Prov. 4, 1:

Attendite, ne justitiam vestram faciatis etc.,

ib. Matt. 6, 1; ib. Eccli. 1, 38; 13, 10; 28, 30.— With de:

cum de necessitate attendemus,

Cic. Part. Or. 24, 84.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

sermonibus malignis,

Plin. Ep. 7, 26:

cui magis quam Caesari attendant?

id. Pan. 65, 2; Sil. 8, 591:

attendit mandatis,

Vulg. Eccli. 32, 28; ib. Prov. 7, 24:

attendite vobis,

take heed to yourselves, ib. Luc. 17, 3; ib. Act. 5, 35; ib. 1 Tim. 4, 16.—So in Suet. several times in the signif. to devote attention to, to study, = studere:

eloquentiae plurimum attendit,

Suet. Calig. 53:

juri,

id. Galb. 5:

extispicio,

id. Ner. 56.—With abl. with ab (after the Gr. prosechein apo tinos;

eccl. Lat.): attende tibi a pestifero,

beware of, Vulg. Eccli. 11, 35:

attendite ab omni iniquo,

ib. ib. 17, 11; ib. Matt. 7, 15; ib. Luc. 12, 1; 20, 46.—

With animo (ante- and post-class. and rare):

cum animo attendi ad quaerendum, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 79 Rib.: nunc quid petam, aequo animo attendite,

Ter. Hec. prol. 20:

quid istud sit, animo attendatis,

App. Flor. 9: ut magis magisque attendant animo, Vulg. Eccli. prol.; so,

in verbis meis attende in corde tuo,

ib. ib. 16, 25.—

To strive eagerly for something, long for: puer, ne attenderis Petere a me id quod nefas sit concedi tibi, Att. ap. Non. p. 238, 19 (Trag. Rel. p. 173 Rib.).—Hence, attentus, a, um, P. a.

Directed to something, attentive, intent on:

Ut animus in spe attentus fuit,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 3:

Quo magis attentas aurīs animumque reposco,

Lucr. 6, 920:

Verba per attentam non ibunt Caesaris aurem,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 19:

si attentos animos ad decoris conservationem tenebimus,

Cic. Off. 1, 37, 131:

cum respiceremus attenti ad gentem,

Vulg. Thren. 4, 17:

eaque dum animis attentis admirantes excipiunt,

Cic. Or. 58, 197:

acerrima atque attentissima cogitatio,

a very acute and close manner of thinking, id. de Or. 3, 5, 17:

et attentum monent Graeci a principio faciamus judicem et docilem,

id. ib. 2, 79, 323; 2, 19, 80; id. Inv. 1, 16, 23; Auct. ad Her. 1, 4:

Ut patris attenti, lenonis ut insidiosi,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 172:

judex circa jus attentior,

Quint. 4, 5, 21.—

Intent on, striving after something, careful, frugal, industrious:

unum hoc vitium fert senectus hominibus: Attentiores sumus ad rem omnes quam sat est,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 48:

nimium ad rem in senectā attente sumus,

id. ib. 5, 8, 31:

tum enim cum rem habebas, quaesticulus te faciebat attentiorem,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7:

paterfamilias et prudens et attentus,

id. Quinct. 3:

Durus, ait, Voltei, nimis attentusque videris Esse mihi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 91:

asper et attentus quaesitis,

id. S. 2, 6, 82:

vita,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 44 Matth.:

qui in re adventiciā et hereditariā tam diligens, tam attentus esset,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 48:

antiqui attenti continentiae,

Val. Max. 2, 5, 5.— Comp.: hortor vos attentiori studio lectionem facere, * Vulg. Eccli. prol.—Hence, adv.: atten-tē, attentively, carefully, etc.:

attente officia servorum fungi,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 14;

audire,

Cic. Phil. 2, 5; id. Clu. 3 fin.; id. de Or. 2, 35, 148; id. Brut. 54, 200:

legere,

id. Fam. 7, 19:

parum attente dicere,

Gell. 4, 15:

custodire attente,

Vulg. Jos. 22, 5.— Comp.:

attentius audire,

Cic. Clu. 23:

acrius et attentius cogitare,

id. Fin. 5, 2, 4:

attentius agere aliquid,

Sall. C. 52, 18:

spectare,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 197:

invicem diligere,

Vulg. 1 Pet 1, 22.— Sup.:

attentissime audire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 259.

at-tĭnĕo ( adt-, Dietsch, Weissenb.), tĭnui, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., (so only ante-class. or in the histt.; most freq. in Plaut. and Tac.).

To hold to, to bring or hold near:

aliquem ante oculos attinere,

Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 30.—

To hold or detain at some point (class. retinere), to hold fast, keep hold of, to hold, keep, detain, hold back, delay:

testes vinctos,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 3:

animum,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 17:

lectos viros castris attinere,

Tac. A. 2, 52; 6, 17:

prensam dextram vi attinere,

id. ib. 1, 35; 2, 10; 3, 71 fin.:

cunctos, qui carcere attinebantur, necari jussit,

id. ib. 6, 19; 3, 36 fin.; 12, 68; 13, 15; 13, 27;

15, 57: set ego conperior Bocchum Punicā fide simul Romanum et Numidam spe pacis adtinuisse,

detained, amused, Sall. J. 108, 3:

ad ea Corbulo satis comperto Vologesen defectione Hyrcaniae attineri,

is detained, hindered, Tac. A. 13, 37 fin.; 13, 50; 14, 33; 14, 56 fin.; 16, 19; id. H. 2, 14 fin. —

To hold possession of, to occupy, keep, guard, preserve: Quamque at tinendi magni dominatūs sient, Ter. Fragm. ap. Cic. Or. 47, 157:

ripam Danubii,

Tac. A. 4, 5.—

To stretch out to, to reach to:

nunc jam cultros attinet, i. e. ad cultros,

now he is reaching forth for, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 17.—Hence, of relations of place, to extend or stretch somewhere:

Scythae ad Borysthenem atque inde ad Tanain attinent,

Curt. 6, 2, 9.—

To belong somewhere; only in the third person: hoc (res) attinet (more rare, haec attinent) ad me (less freq. simply me), or absol. hoc attinet, this belongs to me, concerns me, pertains or appertains to me, relates or refers to me; cf. Rudd. II. p. 209; Roby, § 1534 (the most usu. class. signif. of the word).

Attinet (attinent) ad aliquem:

negotium hoc ad me attinet,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 51:

num quidnam ad filium haec aegritudo attinet?

id. ib. 5, 1, 24:

nunc quam ad rem dicam hoc attinere somnium,

id. Rud. 3, 1, 19; id. Most. 1, 3, 4:

Quid istuc ad me attinet?

id. Poen. 3, 3, 24:

Quid id ad me attinet?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 136, and id. ib. 4, 3, 58:

quod quidem ad nos duas attinuit,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 9 et saep.:

comperiebam nihil ad Pamphilum quicquam attinere,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 64; 1, 2, 16:

Scin tu... ad te attinere hanc Omnem rem?

id. Eun. 4, 6, 6; id. Ad. 1, 2, 54; 2, 1, 32; 3, 1, 9; id. Phorm. 3, 1, 17:

nunc nil ad nos de nobis attinet,

Lucr. 3, 852; 4, 30:

vobis alio loco, ut se tota res habeat, quod ad eam civitatem attinet, demonstrabitur,

in respect to that city, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5:

quod ad me attinet,

id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 1; so id. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 1, 2 al.:

quod ad provincias attineret,

Liv. 42, 10; 23, 26 al.:

tamquam ad rem attineat quicquam,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 27 al.:

sed quid istae picturae ad me attinent?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 36: Do. Hae quid ad me? Tox. Immo ad te attinent:

et tuā refert,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 27:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi, Aliena ut cures eaque nil quae ad te attinent?

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 24:

cetera quae ad colendam vitem attinebunt,

Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38.—And with nunc = ad hoc tempus (eccl. Lat.): Quod nunc attinet, vade, and for this time (Gr. to nun echon), Vulg. Act. 24, 25.—

Attinet (attinent) aliquem: neque quemquam attinebat [p. 196] id recusare, Cic. Quinct. 19: de magnitudine vocis nihil nos attinet commonere, Auct. ad Her. 3, 11, 20:

in his, quae custodiam religionis attinent,

Val. Max. 1, 1, n. 14.—

Hoc attinet (haec attinent), and more freq. attinet with an inf. as subject ( act. and pass.), it concerns, it matters, is of moment, is of consequence, is of importance: ea conquisiverunt, quae nihil attinebant, Auct. ad Her. 1, 1, 1:

nec patitur Scythas... Parthum dicere, nec quae nihil attinent,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 12:

de quo quid sentiam, nihil attinet dicere,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

nihil enim attinet quemquam nominari,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:

quia nec eosdem nominari adtinebat,

Liv. 23, 3, 13:

nec adtinuisse demi securim, cum sine provocatione creati essent, interpretabantur,

id. 3, 36; 2, 41; 6, 23; 6, 38; 34, 3; 36, 11;

37, 15: Quid attinet tot ora navium gravi Rostrata duci etc.,

Hor. Epod. 4, 17 al. —And in pregn. signif., it is serviceable, useful, or avails for, etc.:

quid attinuit cum iis, quibuscum re concinebat, verbis discrepare?

Cic. Fin. 4, 22, 60:

eā re non venit, quia nihil attinuit,

id. Att. 12, 18:

nec victoribus mitti adtinere puto,

Liv. 23, 13:

sin (frumenta) protinus usui destinantur, nihil attinet repoliri,

Col. 2, 21, 6.

con-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., to hold or keep together.

In gen. (rare).

Lit. (syn.:

coërceo, conjungo): contine quaeso caput,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 26:

quod omnem continet amplexu terram,

Lucr. 5, 319; cf.:

mundus omnia conplexu suo coërcet et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 22, 58:

vitem levi nodo,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 187:

magni refert primordia saepe cum quibus... contineantur,

Lucr. 1, 818; 1, 908; 2, 761;

2, 1008: pars oppidi, mari dijuncta angusto, ponte adjungitur et continetur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 117.—

Of places, to bound, limit, enclose (very rare in act.):

reliquum spatium mons continet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

Oceanus ponto qua continet orbem,

Tib. 4, 1, 147; but more freq. in pass., to be comprised, enclosed, surrounded, encompassed, environed by:

qui vicus altissimis montibus undique continetur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; so,

undique loci naturā Helvetii,

id. ib. 1, 2:

mare montibus angustis,

id. ib. 4, 23:

una pars Galliae Garumnā flumine, Oceano, finibus Belgarum,

id. ib. 1, 1.—

Trop.:

omnes artes quasi cognatione quādam inter se continentur,

hang together, Cic. Arch. 1, 2.—Far more freq. in all periods and species of composition.,

With partic. access. ideas.

With the access. idea of firmness, quiet, permanence, etc., to hold or keep together, to keep, hold fast, preserve, retain (syn. servo).

Lit.:

(alvus) arcet et continet... quod recepit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136:

merces (opp. partiri),

id. Vatin. 5, 12; cf.

exercitum (opp. dividere),

Liv. 28, 2, 16:

arida continent odorem diutius,

Plin. 21, 7, 18, § 39.—

Trop.:

nec ulla res vehementius rem publicam continet quam fides,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:

Remos reliquosque Belgas in officio,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

in officio Dumnorigem,

id. ib. 5, 7:

te in exercitatione,

Cic. Fam. 7, 19 fin.:

te in tuis perenuibus studiis,

id. Brut. 97, 332:

ceteros in armis (plaga),

Liv. 9, 41, 15:

alicujus hospitio,

Nep. Lys. 1, 5.—

With the access. idea of hindering, preventing motion, to keep, keep still, detain, restrain, repress, enclose.

Lit.: milites [p. 449] sub pellibus, Caes. B. G. 3, 29; cf.:

pecudem sub tecto,

Col. 7, 10, 3:

exercitum castris,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; 2, 11; Liv. 31, 26, 6; 28, 9, 14 al.; cf.:

nostros in castris (tempestates),

Caes. B. G. 4, 34; 6, 36; and:

copias in castris,

id. B. C. 1, 66; 3, 30; Auct. B. Afr. 1; 7; Liv. 36, 17, 9:

Pompeium quam angustissime,

Caes. B. C. 3, 45:

aliquem limine,

Liv. 34, 1, 5:

ora frenis,

Phaedr. 3, 6, 7:

ventos carcere,

Ov. M. 11, 432:

animam in dicendo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261 et saep.:

se ruri,

to stay, remain, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 17; cf.:

se domi,

Suet. Caes. 81:

suo se loco,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34:

oppido sese,

id. ib. 2, 30:

castris se continere,

id. B. C. 3, 37:

se vallo,

id. B. G. 5, 44:

se finibus Romanis,

Liv. 39, 17, 4; 34, 58, 3:

moenibus sese,

id. 42, 7, 4:

agrorum suorum terminis se,

id. 38, 40, 2:

se moenibus,

Ov. M. 13, 208:

sese intra silvas,

Caes. B. G. 2, 18:

suos intra munitionem,

id. ib. 5, 57;

5, 58: milites intra castrorum vallum,

id. B. C. 3, 76; Liv. 31, 34, 9;

Auct. B. Afr. 24: intra castra militem,

Tac. H. 4, 19:

praesidibus provinciarum propagavit imperium, ut a peritis et assuetis socii continerentur,

Suet. Aug. 23 et saep.:

an te auspicium commoratum est? an tempestas continet?

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 67.—

Trop., to hold back, detain, repress, hold in check, curb, check, stay, stop, tame, subdue, etc. (syn. cohibeo):

adpetitiones animi,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 22:

omnis cupiditates,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, § 32:

modeste insolentiam suam,

id. Agr. 1, 6, 18:

risum,

id. Fin. 4, 25, 71 et saep.:

formido mortales omnes,

Lucr. 1, 151:

Etruriam non tam armis quam judiciorum terrore,

Liv. 29, 36, 10:

oppida magis metu quam fide,

id. 30, 20, 5; cf.:

quosdam continet metus,

Quint. 1, 3, 6:

solo metu,

id. 12, 7, 2 et saep.:

animum a consuetā libidine,

Sall. J. 15, 3:

temeritatem ab omni lapsu (with cohibere),

Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 45:

suos a proelio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

manum juventus Metu deorum,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 37 al.:

se ab adsentiendo,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 104; so,

se ab exemplis,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 62:

temperans, qui se in aliquā libidine continuerit,

id. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se male continet amens,

Ov. M. 4, 351:

male me, quin vera faterer, Continui,

id. ib. 7, 729:

nequeo continere quin loquar,

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 28.—

Mid.: contineri, quin complectar, non queo,

restrain myself, refrain, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 128; cf.:

vix me contineo, quin, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 20:

jam nequeo contineri,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 60; cf.:

vix contineor,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 9:

quae vera audivi, taceo et contineo optime,

keep it to myself, conceal it, id. Eun. 1, 2, 23:

ea quae continet, neque adhuc protulit, explicet nobis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 206:

dicta,

id. ib. 2, 55, 222.—

With the access. idea of containing, to comprise, contain, involve, comprehend something in itself (syn. complector):

(aqua gelum) quod continet in se, mittit,

Lucr. 6, 877; cf.:

ut omnia, quae aluntur et crescunt, contineant in se vim caloris,

Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 23; so,

in se,

Quint. 1, 6, 31; 2, 10, 2:

Quattuor aeternus genitalia corpora mundus Continet,

Ov. M. 15, 240:

rem militarem,

Liv. 5, 52, 16:

panis innumeras paene continet medicinas,

Plin. 22, 25, 68, § 138:

(linea) centum continet (pedes),

Quint. 1, 10, 44:

Idus Martiae magnum mendum continent,

Cic. Att. 14, 22, 2:

paucas species (vox),

Quint. 11, 3, 18:

tales res, quales hic liber continet,

Cic. Or. 43, 148; Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 1:

narrationes, quae summam criminis contineant,

Quint. 4, 2, 10:

fabula stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 8; cf.:

liber primus ea continebit, quae, etc., Quint. prooem. § 21: tertia epistula continebat, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 9, 28, 5.—With subj.-clause:

quando ipsos loqui deceat, quartus liber continet,

Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Esp. freq.,

In pass.: contineri aliquā re, to be contained in something, be composed of, consist of or in, to rest upon, to be supported by, etc.:

terreno corpore,

Lucr. 1, 1085:

non venis et nervis et ossibus continentur (dii),

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

artem negabat esse ullam, nisi quae cognitis penitusque perspectis... rebus contineretur,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 92:

forma honestatis, quae tota quattuor his virtutibus... continetur,

id. Fin. 2, 15, 48:

versus paucis (pedibus) continetur,

Quint. 9, 4, 60: quae philosophorum libris continentur, id. prooem. § 11; cf. id. 5, 10, 111 et saep.: artes, quae conjecturā continentur et sunt opinabiles, Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24:

foedere,

Liv. 41, 23, 9:

actu,

Quint. 2, 18, 5; 12, 9, 1; 3, 7, 28.—Rarely with in and abl.:

forum, in quo omnis aequitas continetur,

Cic. Cat. 4, 1, 2; cf.:

quibus (legibus) in singulis civitatibus res publica continetur,

id. Off. 3, 5, 23.—

Neutr., to hold together in itself, to hang together (in the verb. finit. very rare; but freq. as P. a.; cf. also the deriv. continuus):

per hortum utroque commeatus continet,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 43.—Hence,

contĭnens, entis, P. a.

(Acc. to II.) Holding or hanging together (freq. and class.).

Bordering upon, neighboring, contiguous, lying near, adjacent (syn.: junctus, adjunctus, contiguus); constr. with dat., cum, or absol.

Prop.:

aër mari,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 117:

continentia atque adjuncta praedia huic fundo,

id. Caecin. 4, 11:

(mare) dissimile est proximo ei continenti,

id. Ac. 2, 33, 105 al.:

Cappadociae pars ea, quae cum Cilicià continens est,

id. Fam. 15, 2, 2:

(Morini) continentes silvas ac paludes habebant,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28; cf. so absol.:

parum locuples continente ripā,

Hor. C. 2, 18, 22; cf.:

pars eorum, qui propiores erant continenti litori,

Liv. 44, 28, 12.— Subst.: contĭnentĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. loca), adjoining places, the neighborhood:

Cherronesum et continentia usque Atho montem,

Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 215 al.:

urbis,

the suburbs, Dig. 50, 16, 147.—

Trop., in time, following, next:

continentibus diebus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 84;

and of other abstract things: motus sensui junctus et continens,

Cic. N. D. 1, 11, 26:

timori perpetuo ipsum malum continens fuit,

followed at its heels, Liv. 5, 39, 8.—

Holding together, cohering in itself, connected, continuous, uninterrupted.

Prop.:

continens agmen migrantium,

Liv. 1, 29, 4:

agmen,

id. 2, 50, 7; 8, 8, 13 al.:

ruinae,

id. 21, 8, 5; terra, the mainland, continent, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 100 P.; Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 274, 6; Nep. Them. 3, 2; and in the same sense far more freq. subst.: contĭnens, entis, f. (rarely masc., Curt. 4, 2, 1 Zumpt, dub.; abl. in e and i equally used;

v. the 4th and 5th books of Caes. B. G.),

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 4, 28; 4, 31; 4, 36 bis et saep.; Nep. Milt. 7, 3; Liv. 35, 43, 4; Plin. 5, 31, 34, § 128; Suet Aug. 65; id. Tib. 40 et saep.—

Trop., in time, continual, consecutive, uninterrupted:

labor omnium dierum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 63; Liv. 42, 54, 3:

bella,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11 fin.:

imperium usque ad nos,

Liv. 7, 30, 8:

imber per noctem totam,

id. 23, 44, 6:

biduo,

Suet. Calig. 19:

febres sine intermissione,

Cels. 3, 5 fin.:

e continenti genere,

in continuous descent, Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 61:

spiritus,

id. de Or. 3, 57, 216 et saep.: ex continenti (sc. tempore), instantly, immediately, = continuo, statim, Just. 1, 9; so,

in continenti,

Dig. 44, 5, 1.—

(Acc. to I. B. 2. b.) That restrains his passions, continent, moderate, temperate, enkratês (rare, but in good prose):

continentior in vitā hominum quam in pecuniā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 23:

cum reges tam sint continentes, multo magis consularis esse oportere,

Cic. Fam. 9, 19, 1:

puer,

id. Att. 6, 6, 3:

Epaminondas,

Nep. Epam. 3, 2 al. — Sup., Cic. Par. 1, 1, 7; Suet. Aug. 71.—

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) In rhet., subst.: contĭnens, entis, n., that on which something rests or depends, the chief point, hinge:

causae,

Cic. Part. Or. 29, 103; id. Top. 25, 95:

intuendum videtur, quid sit quaestio, ratio, judicatio, continens, vel ut alii vocant, firmamentum,

Quint. 3, 11, 1; cf. id. ib. § 18 sqq.— Adv.: contĭnen-ter.

(Acc. to A. 2.)

In space, in unbroken succession, in a row. continenter sedetis, Cat. 37, 6.—More freq. and class.,

In time, continuously, without interruption:

totā nocte ierunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

jam amplius horis sex pugnaretur,

id. ib. 3, 5:

biduum lapidibus pluit,

Liv. 25, 7, 7:

usque ad ipsum negotium,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 37:

ferri imagines,

id. N. D. 1, 39, 109.—

(Acc. to B.) Temperately, moderately (rare):

vivere,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106; in sup.:

vivere,

Aug. Ep. 199; id. Conf. 6, 12.—Hence also,

contentus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 2. b.); medial., satisfying one's self with, contented, satisfied, content (freq. in all periods and species of composition); constr. in gen. with the abl.; more rarely absol.; after the Aug. per. very freq. with the inf.

With abl.: his versibus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 264, 3:

suis rebus,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51:

paucis,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 16:

illā (sorte),

id. ib. 1, 1, 3:

viverem uti contentus eo quod mī ipse parasset,

id. ib. 1, 4, 108; cf. Suet. Aug. 82:

solā Dianā,

Verg. A. 11, 582.—

Absol.:

cum ipsum audires sine comparatione, non modo contentus esses, sed melius non quaereres,

Cic. Brut. 35, 134; so comp., Plaut. Poen. 2, 15.—

With inf.:

indagare,

Ov. M. 1, 461:

edidicisse,

id. ib. 2, 638:

retinere titulum provinciae,

Vell. 2, 49:

hostes sustinuisse,

id. 2, 112:

indicare,

Quint. 4, 2, 128:

ostendere,

id. 5, 10, 31:

id consequi, quod imiteris,

id. 10, 2, 7 et saep.— Adv.: contentē (ante-and post-class., and rare), in a restrained manner, closely:

arte contenteque habere aliquem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 63:

parce contenteque vivere,

Pacat. Pan. Theod. 13.

D, d (n. indecl., sometimes f. sc. littera), the flat dental mute, corresponding in character and sound to the English d and the Greek D, was the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, and was called de: Ter. Maur. p. 2385 P., Auson. Idyll. 12, de Litt. Monos. 14. But at the end of a syllable, or after another consonant, its sound was sharpened, so that the grammarians often discuss the question whether d or t should be written, especially in conjunctions and prepositions. Illa quoque servata est a multis differentia, ut ad cum esset praepositio, d litteram, cum autem conjunctio, t acciperet (Quint. 1, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 4, 16). Hence we may infer that some disputed this distinction, and that the sounds of ad and at must at least have been very similar (cf. also Terent. Scaur. p. 2250, Vel. Long. p. 2230 sq., Cassiod. p. 2287, 2291). Thus also aput, it, quit, quot, aliut, set, haut are found for apud, id, quid, quod, aliud, sed, haud. It would appear from the remarks of these authors that the last two words in particular, having a proclitic character, while they distinctly retained the d sound before an initial vowel in the following word, were pronounced before a consonant almost as set, haut (Mar. Vict. p. 2462 P., Vel. Long. l. l. v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.). The use of t for d in the middle of a word, as Alexenter for Alexander, atnato for adnato, is very rare (cf. Wordsworth, Fragm. p. 486 sq.). On the other hand, the use of d for t, which sometimes appears in MSS. and inscrr., as ed, capud, essed, inquid (all of which occur in the Cod. palimps. of Cic. Rep.), adque, quodannis, sicud, etc., fecid, reliquid, etc. (all in inscriptions after the Augustan period), is to be ascribed to a later phonetic softening (cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.).

As an initial, the letter d, in pure Latin words, suffers only a vowel after it; the single consonantal compound dr being found only in borrowed words, such as drama, Drusus, Druidae, etc., and in the two onomatopees drenso and drindio. Accordingly, the d of the initial dv, from du, was rejected, and the remaining v either retained unaltered (as in v iginti for du iginti; cf. triginta) or changed into b (as in b ellum, b is, b onus, for du ellum, du is, du onus; v. those words and the letter B). So too in and after the 4th century A.D., di before vowels was pronounced like j (cf. J ovis for Dj ovis, and J anus for Di anus); and hence, as the Greek di ( di) passed into dz, i. e. z (as in z a for d ia, and z eta for di aeta), we sometimes find the same name written in two or three ways, as Diabolenus, Jabolenus, Zabolenus; Jadera, Diadora, Zara. In many Greek words, however, which originally began with a y sound, d was prefixed by an instinctive effort to avoid a disagreeable utterance, just as in English the initial j has regularly assumed the sound of dj: thus Gr. zugon, i. e. diugon = L. jugum; and in such cases the d sound has been prefixed in Greek, not lost in Latin and other languages (v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 608 sq.).b. As a medial, d before most consonants undergoes assimilation; v. ad, no. II.; assum, init., and cf. iccirco, quippiam, quicquam, for idcirco, quidpiam, quidquam; and in contractions like cette from cedite, pelluviae from pediluviae, sella from sedela. In contractions, however, the d is sometimes dropped and a compensation effected by lengthening the preceding vowel, as scāla for scand-la. D before endings which begin with s was suppressed, as pes from ped-s, lapis from lapid-s, frons from frond-s, rasi from radsi, risi from rid-si, lusi from lud-si, clausi from claud-si; but in the second and third roots of cedo, and in the third roots of some other verbs, d is assimilated, as cessi, cessum, fossum, etc. D is also omitted before s in composition when another consonant follows the s, as ascendo, aspicio, asto, astringo, and so also before the nasal gn in agnatus, agnitus, and agnosco, from gnatus, etc.: but in other combinations it is assimilated, as assentio, acclamo, accresco; affligo, affrico; agglomero, aggrego; applico, approbo, etc. In tentum, from tendo, d is dropped to avoid the combination ndt or ntt, since euphony forbids a consonant to be doubled after another.g. Final d stood only in ad, apud, sed, and in the neuter pronouns quid, quod, illud, istud, and aliud, anciently alid. Otherwise, the ending d was considered barbarous, Prisc. p. 686 P.

The letter d represents regularly an original Indo-Germanic d, in Greek d, but which in German becomes z, in Gothic t, and in Anglo-Saxon t: cf. Gr. hêdomai, Sanscr. svad, Germ. süss, Angl.-Sax. svēte (sweet), with Lat. suadeo; domare with Gr. damaô, Germ. zähmen, Eng. tame; domus with demô, timber, O. H. Germ. zimber; duo with duô, zwei, two. But it is also interchanged with other sounds, and thus sometimes represents—

An original t: mendax from mentior; quadraginta, quadra, etc., from quatuor.—

An original r: ar and ad; apur or apor and apud; meridies and medidies, audio and auris; cf. arbiter, from ad-beto; arcesso for ad-cesso.—

An original l: adeps, Gr. aleipha; dacrima and lacrima, dingua and lingua; cf. on the contrary, olere for odere, consilium and considere, Ulixes from Odusseus (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 223).—

An original s: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus, medius and misos; and, on the contrary, rosa and rhodon. —

A Greek th: fides, pistis; gaudere, gêtheô; vad-i-monium (from va-d-s, vadis), aethlon.

In the oldest period of the language d was the ending of the ablat. sing. and of the adverbs which were originally ablatives (cf. Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excur. I.; Brix ad Plaut. Trin. Prol. 10): pu CNANDO, MARID, DICTATORED, IN ALTOD MARID, NAVALED PRAEDAD on the Col. Rostr.; DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD (thrice) IN OQVOLTOD, IN POPLICOD, IN PREIVATOD, IN COVENTIONID, and the adverbs SVPRAD SCRIPTVM EST (thrice), EXSTRAD QVAM SEI, and even EXSTRAD VRBEM, in S. C. de Bacch. So intra-d, ultra-d, citra-d, contra-d, infra-d, supra-d; contro-d, intro-d, etc.; and probably interea-d, postea-d. Here too belongs, no doubt, the adverb FACILVMED, found in the last-mentioned inscription. But this use of the d became antiquated during the 3d century B.C., and is not found at all in any inscription after 186 B. C. Plautus seems to have used or omitted it at will (Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excurs. p. 18: Corss. Ausspr. 1, 197; 2, 1008).

D final was also anciently found—

In the accus. sing. of the personal pronouns med, ted, sed: INTER SED CONIOVRASE and INTER SED DEDISE, for inter se conjuravisse and inter se dedisse, in the S. C. de Bacch. This usage was retained, at least as a license of verse, when the next word began with a vowel, even in the time of Plautus. But in the classic period this d no longer appears. —

In the imperative mood;

as estod,

Fest. p. 230. The Oscan language retained this ending (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 206).—

In the preposition se-, originally identical with the conjunction sed (it is retained in the compound seditio); also in red-, prod-, antid-, postid-, etc. ( redire, prodire, etc.); and in these words, too, it is a remnant of the ancient characteristic of the ablative (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 200 sq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 49).

As an abbreviation, D usually stands for the praenomen Decimus; also for Deus, Divus, Dominus, Decurio, etc.; over epitaphs, D. M. = Diis Manibus; over temple inscriptions, D. O. M. = Deo Optimo Maxumo; in the titles of the later emperors, D. N. = Dominus Noster, and DD. NN. = Domini Nostri. Before dates of letters, D signified dabam, and also dies; hence, a. d. = ante diem; in offerings to the gods, D. D. = dono or donum dedit; D. D. D. = dat, dicat, dedicat, etc. Cf. Orell. Inscr. II. p. 457 sq.

D, d (n. indecl., sometimes f. sc. littera), the flat dental mute, corresponding in character and sound to the English d and the Greek D, was the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, and was called de: Ter. Maur. p. 2385 P., Auson. Idyll. 12, de Litt. Monos. 14. But at the end of a syllable, or after another consonant, its sound was sharpened, so that the grammarians often discuss the question whether d or t should be written, especially in conjunctions and prepositions. Illa quoque servata est a multis differentia, ut ad cum esset praepositio, d litteram, cum autem conjunctio, t acciperet (Quint. 1, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 4, 16). Hence we may infer that some disputed this distinction, and that the sounds of ad and at must at least have been very similar (cf. also Terent. Scaur. p. 2250, Vel. Long. p. 2230 sq., Cassiod. p. 2287, 2291). Thus also aput, it, quit, quot, aliut, set, haut are found for apud, id, quid, quod, aliud, sed, haud. It would appear from the remarks of these authors that the last two words in particular, having a proclitic character, while they distinctly retained the d sound before an initial vowel in the following word, were pronounced before a consonant almost as set, haut (Mar. Vict. p. 2462 P., Vel. Long. l. l. v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.). The use of t for d in the middle of a word, as Alexenter for Alexander, atnato for adnato, is very rare (cf. Wordsworth, Fragm. p. 486 sq.). On the other hand, the use of d for t, which sometimes appears in MSS. and inscrr., as ed, capud, essed, inquid (all of which occur in the Cod. palimps. of Cic. Rep.), adque, quodannis, sicud, etc., fecid, reliquid, etc. (all in inscriptions after the Augustan period), is to be ascribed to a later phonetic softening (cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 191 sq.).

As an initial, the letter d, in pure Latin words, suffers only a vowel after it; the single consonantal compound dr being found only in borrowed words, such as drama, Drusus, Druidae, etc., and in the two onomatopees drenso and drindio. Accordingly, the d of the initial dv, from du, was rejected, and the remaining v either retained unaltered (as in v iginti for du iginti; cf. triginta) or changed into b (as in b ellum, b is, b onus, for du ellum, du is, du onus; v. those words and the letter B). So too in and after the 4th century A.D., di before vowels was pronounced like j (cf. J ovis for Dj ovis, and J anus for Di anus); and hence, as the Greek di ( di) passed into dz, i. e. z (as in z a for d ia, and z eta for di aeta), we sometimes find the same name written in two or three ways, as Diabolenus, Jabolenus, Zabolenus; Jadera, Diadora, Zara. In many Greek words, however, which originally began with a y sound, d was prefixed by an instinctive effort to avoid a disagreeable utterance, just as in English the initial j has regularly assumed the sound of dj: thus Gr. zugon, i. e. diugon = L. jugum; and in such cases the d sound has been prefixed in Greek, not lost in Latin and other languages (v. Curt. Griech. Etym. p. 608 sq.).b. As a medial, d before most consonants undergoes assimilation; v. ad, no. II.; assum, init., and cf. iccirco, quippiam, quicquam, for idcirco, quidpiam, quidquam; and in contractions like cette from cedite, pelluviae from pediluviae, sella from sedela. In contractions, however, the d is sometimes dropped and a compensation effected by lengthening the preceding vowel, as scāla for scand-la. D before endings which begin with s was suppressed, as pes from ped-s, lapis from lapid-s, frons from frond-s, rasi from radsi, risi from rid-si, lusi from lud-si, clausi from claud-si; but in the second and third roots of cedo, and in the third roots of some other verbs, d is assimilated, as cessi, cessum, fossum, etc. D is also omitted before s in composition when another consonant follows the s, as ascendo, aspicio, asto, astringo, and so also before the nasal gn in agnatus, agnitus, and agnosco, from gnatus, etc.: but in other combinations it is assimilated, as assentio, acclamo, accresco; affligo, affrico; agglomero, aggrego; applico, approbo, etc. In tentum, from tendo, d is dropped to avoid the combination ndt or ntt, since euphony forbids a consonant to be doubled after another.g. Final d stood only in ad, apud, sed, and in the neuter pronouns quid, quod, illud, istud, and aliud, anciently alid. Otherwise, the ending d was considered barbarous, Prisc. p. 686 P.

The letter d represents regularly an original Indo-Germanic d, in Greek d, but which in German becomes z, in Gothic t, and in Anglo-Saxon t: cf. Gr. hêdomai, Sanscr. svad, Germ. süss, Angl.-Sax. svēte (sweet), with Lat. suadeo; domare with Gr. damaô, Germ. zähmen, Eng. tame; domus with demô, timber, O. H. Germ. zimber; duo with duô, zwei, two. But it is also interchanged with other sounds, and thus sometimes represents—

An original t: mendax from mentior; quadraginta, quadra, etc., from quatuor.—

An original r: ar and ad; apur or apor and apud; meridies and medidies, audio and auris; cf. arbiter, from ad-beto; arcesso for ad-cesso.—

An original l: adeps, Gr. aleipha; dacrima and lacrima, dingua and lingua; cf. on the contrary, olere for odere, consilium and considere, Ulixes from Odusseus (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 223).—

An original s: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus, medius and misos; and, on the contrary, rosa and rhodon. —

A Greek th: fides, pistis; gaudere, gêtheô; vad-i-monium (from va-d-s, vadis), aethlon.

In the oldest period of the language d was the ending of the ablat. sing. and of the adverbs which were originally ablatives (cf. Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excur. I.; Brix ad Plaut. Trin. Prol. 10): pu CNANDO, MARID, DICTATORED, IN ALTOD MARID, NAVALED PRAEDAD on the Col. Rostr.; DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD (thrice) IN OQVOLTOD, IN POPLICOD, IN PREIVATOD, IN COVENTIONID, and the adverbs SVPRAD SCRIPTVM EST (thrice), EXSTRAD QVAM SEI, and even EXSTRAD VRBEM, in S. C. de Bacch. So intra-d, ultra-d, citra-d, contra-d, infra-d, supra-d; contro-d, intro-d, etc.; and probably interea-d, postea-d. Here too belongs, no doubt, the adverb FACILVMED, found in the last-mentioned inscription. But this use of the d became antiquated during the 3d century B.C., and is not found at all in any inscription after 186 B. C. Plautus seems to have used or omitted it at will (Ritschl, Neue Plaut. Excurs. p. 18: Corss. Ausspr. 1, 197; 2, 1008).

D final was also anciently found—

In the accus. sing. of the personal pronouns med, ted, sed: INTER SED CONIOVRASE and INTER SED DEDISE, for inter se conjuravisse and inter se dedisse, in the S. C. de Bacch. This usage was retained, at least as a license of verse, when the next word began with a vowel, even in the time of Plautus. But in the classic period this d no longer appears. —

In the imperative mood;

as estod,

Fest. p. 230. The Oscan language retained this ending (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 206).—

In the preposition se-, originally identical with the conjunction sed (it is retained in the compound seditio); also in red-, prod-, antid-, postid-, etc. ( redire, prodire, etc.); and in these words, too, it is a remnant of the ancient characteristic of the ablative (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 200 sq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 49).

As an abbreviation, D usually stands for the praenomen Decimus; also for Deus, Divus, Dominus, Decurio, etc.; over epitaphs, D. M. = Diis Manibus; over temple inscriptions, D. O. M. = Deo Optimo Maxumo; in the titles of the later emperors, D. N. = Dominus Noster, and DD. NN. = Domini Nostri. Before dates of letters, D signified dabam, and also dies; hence, a. d. = ante diem; in offerings to the gods, D. D. = dono or donum dedit; D. D. D. = dat, dicat, dedicat, etc. Cf. Orell. Inscr. II. p. 457 sq.

dē-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo], to hold off, keep back, detain.

Lit. (class.):

nos de nostro negotio,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 190:

aliquem ab aliquo incepto studioque,

Sall. C. 4, 2:

aliquem apud villam,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 13: so,

aliquem,

id. Men. 4, 2, 22; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 49; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 5 (with demorari), Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 3 Oud. N. cr.; Liv. 4, 55 (opp. concire); Verg. A. 2, 788; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 5:

me grata compede Myrtale,

id. Od. 1, 33, 14; Ov. M. 13, 301 et saep.:

novissimos proelio,

Caes. B. C. 3, 75, 4; cf.:

Hannibalem quam acerrimo bello,

Liv. 27, 12:

se miserandis alimentis detinuerat,

had supported himself, Tac. A. 6, 23:

naves tempestatibus detinebantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.:

rates voce canora,

Ov. A. A. 3, 311:

iter iratae anguis (cantus),

Tib. 1, 8, 20:

illum ne discederet,

Vulg. Luc. 4, 42.—

Trop.

In gen. ( poet.), to delay, i. e. lengthen:

euntem multa loquendo Detinuit sermone diem,

Ov. M. 1, 683; cf.

tempus,

id. Pont. 4, 10, 67.—

Esp., to occupy, engage (also class.):

in alienis negotiis detineri,

Cic. Inv. 2, 45, 132; cf. Quint. 10, 5, 17:

in contumelia,

Tac. A. 13, 36 fin.:

in admiratione sui,

Suet. Ner. 52:

manus in lyricis modis,

Ov. F. 5, 386:

mentes hominum circa alia,

Plin. H. N. 14 prooem. §

4: animum studiis,

Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 39:

oculos (mea poëmata),

id. ib. 2, 520; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 63:

animos in timore,

Hirt. B. Afr. 72, 3.—

To hold in the mind, know:

veritatem Dei in injustitia,

Vulg. Rom. 1, 18.

dis-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo].

To keep asunder, to separate, divide.

Lit.:

tigna binis utrimque fibulis ab extrema parte distinebantur,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 7; Vitr. 3, 3:

mare, quod late terrarum distinet oras,

Lucr. 5, 203; 5, 690:

duo freta Isthmos,

Ov. H. 8, 69 Heins.; cf. id. ib. 12, 104; Luc. 4, 675: quem Notus spatio longius annuo Dulci distinet a domo, [p. 598] Hor. C. 4, 5, 12.—

Trop., to divide mentally; to distract, perplex:

distineor et divellor dolore,

Cic. Planc. 33, 79:

duae factiones senatum distinebant,

Liv. 9, 16, 6; cf. id. 5, 20, 4; Tac. H. 1, 32:

unanimos,

Liv. 7, 21:

ancipiti bello distinere regem,

id. 44, 20. —Esp. freq.,

In gen., to hold off, keep back, keep asunder, hinder, detain, prevent; to occupy, engage, employ, divert:

legiones a praesidio interclusas maximum flumen distinebat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 59, 5:

manus hostium,

id. ib. 2, 5, 2:

manum,

id. ib. 3, 11, 4; id. B. C. 3, 52, 1:

copias Caesaris,

id. ib. 3, 44, 2:

Volscos,

Liv. 4, 59:

Parthos Hyrcano bello,

Tac. A. 14, 25:

Britannicum militem hoste et mari,

id. H. 2, 32 et saep.:

in multitudine judiciorum et novis legibus distineri,

Cic. Fam. 7, 2 fin.; cf. id. ib. 12, 30, 2; id. Att. 2, 23:

distineri litibus,

Nep. Att. 9, 4:

ad omnia tuenda multifariam distineri,

Liv. 21, 8:

quominus strueret crimina distineri,

Tac. A. 11, 12.—

Transf., of inanimate objects:

pacem,

to hinder, prevent, Cic. Phil. 12, 12, 28; Liv. 2, 15 fin.:

victoriam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 3:

rem,

Liv. 37, 12.—Hence, distentus, a, um, P. a., engaged, busied, occupied:

tot tantisque negotiis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 22; id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 3; Plin. Ep. 6, 18, 1 al.:

te distentissimum esse qua de Buthrotiis, qua de Bruto,

Cic. Att. 15, 18:

circa summa scelera,

Tac. A. 16, 8 fin. —Of abstract subjects:

mens divina,

Cic. N. D. 3, 39 fin.:

tempus distentum impeditumque maximis officiis,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 7.— Comp. and adv. seem not to occur.

ob-tĭnĕo ( opt-), tĭnŭi, tentum, 2 (old perf. OPTENVI, fifth Epit. of the Scipios; inf. pass. obtinerier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 19; id. Most. 3, 2, 154), v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act. *

To take hold of, hold:

obtine aures, amabo,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 16.—

To hold, have, occupy, possess; to preserve, keep, maintain, etc. (class.).

In gen.: sancte Apollo, qui umbilicum certum terrarum obtines, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 115 (Trag. Rel. p. 201 Rib.):

suam quisque domum tum obtinebat,

Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

armis Galliam atque Italiam,

Liv. 30, 19:

cum imperio Hispaniam citeriorem,

to have as his province, to be governor in it, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

Galliam et Italiam,

Liv. 30, 19:

Africam,

Nep. Timol. 2, 4; cf.:

ex quā insulā nummus nullus, me obtinente, erogabitur,

during my administration, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: QVEI AERARIVM PROVINCIAM OBTINEBIT, who will have the administration of the public treasure, Lex Thor. § 20 Rudorff. p. 168;

Lex de Scribis ap. Haubold, p. 85: necessitudinem cum publicanis,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35:

vitam et famam,

to preserve, id. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

auctoritatem suam,

to maintain, id. ib. 48, 139:

principatum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3:

regnum,

id. ib. 1, 7:

jus,

to assert, maintain, Tac. A. 1, 32:

causam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 4:

noctem insequentem eadem caligo obtinuit,

occupied, took up, prevailed during, Liv. 29, 27:

quae (fama) plerosque obtinet,

Sall. J. 17, 7:

proverbii locum obtinet,

i. e. is become proverbial, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36:

parentis gravitatem,

id. Sull. 6, 19:

numerum deorum,

to be numbered among, id. N. D. 3, 20, 51; so,

aliquem numerum,

id. Brut. 47, 175; cf. id. Off. 2, 12, 43: summam opinionem [p. 1247] m scholis, Quint. 10, 5, 18:

admirationem,

to be admired, Plin. 34, 2, 2, § 2:

patriae nomen,

id. 15, 18, 19, § 69:

firmitudinem animi,

i. e. exhibited, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:

pontem,

would not yield, Liv. 2, 10:

silentiam,

to maintain, id. 1, 16.—With inf., to persist in:

earumque artem et disciplinam obtineat colere,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 30.—

In partic., of speech, to assert, maintain, i. e. to show, prove, demonstrate:

possumus hoc teste... quod dicimus, obtinere?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 168:

duas contrarias sententias,

id. Fin. 4, 28, 78:

diu pugnare in iis, quae obtinere non possis,

Quint. 6, 4, 15:

recta apud turpes,

id. 3, 8, 38:

quaedam (leges) an obtineri possint,

id. 2, 4, 39; 6, 1, 7:

quod orator praecipue sibi obtinendum intellegit,

id. 3, 6, 9 Spald. N. cr. (al. proponendum); cf. id. 12, 10, 53:

si defecerint omnia, tum videndum erit, an obtineri possit, ne illud quidem recte factum,

id. 5, 13, 24; 2, 5, 18.—

To get possession of; to gain, acquire, obtain something (syn.: assequor, adipiscor, impetro;

class.): quanta instrumenta habeat (homo) ad obtinendam adipiscendamque sapientiam,

Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 59:

impetrare et obtinere,

Gell. 12, 14, 6; Cic. Fam. 1, 8, 5:

malas causas semper obtinuit, in optimā concidit,

gained, id. Att. 7, 25, 1; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10:

jus suum contra aliquem,

id. Quint. 9, 34:

Romani si rem obtinuerint,

if they gained the victory, Caes. B. G. 7, 85: voluimus quaedam;

obtenta non sunt,

Cic. Balb. 27, 61:

apud eum causam obtinuit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37:

aditu regis obtento,

Just. 21, 6, 5.—Hence, to conquer, overcome (eccl. Lat.):

melius est ut pugnemus contra eos in campestribus, et obtinebimus eos,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 23; 20, 25; id. Judith, 1, 5.—

Neutr. (cf. teneo, II.), to maintain itself; to hold, prevail, last, stand, continue, obtain (not in Cic.):

quod et plures tradidere auctores et fama obtinuit,

Liv. 21, 46, 10; cf. with a subject-clause: pro vero antea obtinebat, regna atque imperia Fortunam dono dare, Sall. Rep. Ordin. init.:

non ipsos quoque fuisse pastores obtinebit, quod? etc.,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9:

si dissentirent, sententia plurium obtineret,

would prevail, Dig. 42, 1, 36:

quod merito obtinuit,

ib. 2, 4, 4.— Absol.:

obtinuit (sc. consuetudo),

Dig. 1, 13, 1.—With de: quia de intercalando non obtinuerat, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5.—With ut or ne:

his obtinuit, ut praeferretur candidato,

Liv. 35, 10; Suet. Claud. 41:

obtinuit, ne reus fieret,

id. Caes. 23.—With quin, Suet. Tib. 31.

ob-tĭnĕo ( opt-), tĭnŭi, tentum, 2 (old perf. OPTENVI, fifth Epit. of the Scipios; inf. pass. obtinerier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 19; id. Most. 3, 2, 154), v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act. *

To take hold of, hold:

obtine aures, amabo,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 16.—

To hold, have, occupy, possess; to preserve, keep, maintain, etc. (class.).

In gen.: sancte Apollo, qui umbilicum certum terrarum obtines, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 115 (Trag. Rel. p. 201 Rib.):

suam quisque domum tum obtinebat,

Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

armis Galliam atque Italiam,

Liv. 30, 19:

cum imperio Hispaniam citeriorem,

to have as his province, to be governor in it, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 2:

Galliam et Italiam,

Liv. 30, 19:

Africam,

Nep. Timol. 2, 4; cf.:

ex quā insulā nummus nullus, me obtinente, erogabitur,

during my administration, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: QVEI AERARIVM PROVINCIAM OBTINEBIT, who will have the administration of the public treasure, Lex Thor. § 20 Rudorff. p. 168;

Lex de Scribis ap. Haubold, p. 85: necessitudinem cum publicanis,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12, § 35:

vitam et famam,

to preserve, id. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

auctoritatem suam,

to maintain, id. ib. 48, 139:

principatum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3:

regnum,

id. ib. 1, 7:

jus,

to assert, maintain, Tac. A. 1, 32:

causam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 4:

noctem insequentem eadem caligo obtinuit,

occupied, took up, prevailed during, Liv. 29, 27:

quae (fama) plerosque obtinet,

Sall. J. 17, 7:

proverbii locum obtinet,

i. e. is become proverbial, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36:

parentis gravitatem,

id. Sull. 6, 19:

numerum deorum,

to be numbered among, id. N. D. 3, 20, 51; so,

aliquem numerum,

id. Brut. 47, 175; cf. id. Off. 2, 12, 43: summam opinionem [p. 1247] m scholis, Quint. 10, 5, 18:

admirationem,

to be admired, Plin. 34, 2, 2, § 2:

patriae nomen,

id. 15, 18, 19, § 69:

firmitudinem animi,

i. e. exhibited, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 54:

pontem,

would not yield, Liv. 2, 10:

silentiam,

to maintain, id. 1, 16.—With inf., to persist in:

earumque artem et disciplinam obtineat colere,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 30.—

In partic., of speech, to assert, maintain, i. e. to show, prove, demonstrate:

possumus hoc teste... quod dicimus, obtinere?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 168:

duas contrarias sententias,

id. Fin. 4, 28, 78:

diu pugnare in iis, quae obtinere non possis,

Quint. 6, 4, 15:

recta apud turpes,

id. 3, 8, 38:

quaedam (leges) an obtineri possint,

id. 2, 4, 39; 6, 1, 7:

quod orator praecipue sibi obtinendum intellegit,

id. 3, 6, 9 Spald. N. cr. (al. proponendum); cf. id. 12, 10, 53:

si defecerint omnia, tum videndum erit, an obtineri possit, ne illud quidem recte factum,

id. 5, 13, 24; 2, 5, 18.—

To get possession of; to gain, acquire, obtain something (syn.: assequor, adipiscor, impetro;

class.): quanta instrumenta habeat (homo) ad obtinendam adipiscendamque sapientiam,

Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 59:

impetrare et obtinere,

Gell. 12, 14, 6; Cic. Fam. 1, 8, 5:

malas causas semper obtinuit, in optimā concidit,

gained, id. Att. 7, 25, 1; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10:

jus suum contra aliquem,

id. Quint. 9, 34:

Romani si rem obtinuerint,

if they gained the victory, Caes. B. G. 7, 85: voluimus quaedam;

obtenta non sunt,

Cic. Balb. 27, 61:

apud eum causam obtinuit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37:

aditu regis obtento,

Just. 21, 6, 5.—Hence, to conquer, overcome (eccl. Lat.):

melius est ut pugnemus contra eos in campestribus, et obtinebimus eos,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 23; 20, 25; id. Judith, 1, 5.—

Neutr. (cf. teneo, II.), to maintain itself; to hold, prevail, last, stand, continue, obtain (not in Cic.):

quod et plures tradidere auctores et fama obtinuit,

Liv. 21, 46, 10; cf. with a subject-clause: pro vero antea obtinebat, regna atque imperia Fortunam dono dare, Sall. Rep. Ordin. init.:

non ipsos quoque fuisse pastores obtinebit, quod? etc.,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9:

si dissentirent, sententia plurium obtineret,

would prevail, Dig. 42, 1, 36:

quod merito obtinuit,

ib. 2, 4, 4.— Absol.:

obtinuit (sc. consuetudo),

Dig. 1, 13, 1.—With de: quia de intercalando non obtinuerat, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5.—With ut or ne:

his obtinuit, ut praeferretur candidato,

Liv. 35, 10; Suet. Claud. 41:

obtinuit, ne reus fieret,

id. Caes. 23.—With quin, Suet. Tib. 31.

rĕ-tĭnĕo, ŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo].

(With the signif. of the re predominating.) To hold or keep back, not let go; to detain, retain; to restrain (class.; cf. restringo).

Lit.: Ep. Asta, abire hinc non sinam. Th. Quid nunc me retines? Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 61:

quotiens foras ego ire volo, me retines, revocas,

id. Men. 1, 2, 5:

quid, malum, astas? Quin retines altrinsecus?

id. Mil. 2, 5, 36; id. Stich. 2, 3, 11:

te dexterā retinens manu Opsecro,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 82: si magis vis, eam omittam. Py. Nolo;

retine,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 27:

retine me,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 11; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 23:

concilium dimittit, Liscum retinet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

homines,

Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1:

ab his fit initium retinendi Silii, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8; 3, 9; 3, 10 et saep.:

milites,

id. ib. 7, 47; 7, 52; cf.:

milites in loco,

id. B. C. 3, 92:

legiones ad urbem,

id. ib. 1, 2;

1, 9: cohortes apud se,

id. ib. 2, 19:

venit Varro ad me, et quidem id tempus, ut retinendus esset,

when he must be kept, Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4:

biduum tempestate retentus,

detained, Caes. B. C. 3, 102; cf. id. B. G. 7, 1; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

aegre sunt retenti, quin oppidum irrumperent,

Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.:

vi me, vi inquam, Plancius et complexu suo retinuit,

Cic. Planc. 41, 100:

nisi jam profecti sunt, retinebis homines,

id. Att. 13, 14, 1:

euntem,

Ov. H. 18, 99:

aliquem vinclis,

id. R. Am. 213:

consulem,

Liv. 37, 51:

morbo retineri,

id. 34, 10;

v. also infra, B.: armorum parte tertiā celatà atque in oppido retentā,

Caes. B. G. 2, 32 fin.; 2, 33:

naves pro bonis Tarquiniorum ab Aristodemo retentae sunt,

i. e. as security, Liv. 2, 34, 4:

vinum portantes naves tempestatibus retentas esse,

id. 37, 27, 2; Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 45:

mercedem,

to keep back, stop, id. As. 2, 4, 37:

alienum,

Cic. Fl. 23, 56:

lacrimas,

Ov. M. 1, 647:

manus ab ore,

id. ib. 9, 575 et saep.:

mulierem,

to hold, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 33; cf.:

mulierem per vim,

id. Bacch. 4, 8, 2:

arcum manu,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

faculas sagittas,

Prop. 2, 29 (3, 27), 5; cf.:

injectā manu ferreā et retentā utrāque nave,

Caes. B. C. 1, 58:

sudor madidā veste retentus,

Mart. 5, 79, 3.—

Trop., to hold in check, keep within bounds, to restrain, check, repress, etc.: hoc servi esse officium reor, retinere at salutem (erum), Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 8:

liberos retinere,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 33; Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; cf.:

moderantem cursum atque in suā potestate retinentem,

id. ib. 1, 29, 45:

gaudia,

Ov. M. 12, 285:

rabiem,

id. ib. 3, 566:

verba dolore,

id. ib. 10, 474:

aliquem in officio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70:

animos sociorum in fide,

Liv. 25, 40:

retineri nequeo quin dicam ea, quae promeres,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 15 (cf. supra, A.):

quae (varietas) vehementer animos hominum in legendo tuo scripto retinere possit... ordo ipse annalium mediocriter nos retinet,

binds, enchains, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4 and 5:

(picus) Ore suo volucres vagas retinere solebat,

Ov. M. 14, 340:

lingua retenta metu,

id. H. 11, 82:

retinentibus vobis, erumperem,

Curt. 6, 3, 5.—

(With the signif. of the verb predominant.) To hold fast, keep, retain, preserve, maintain, etc. (freq. only since the class. per.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf. obtineo).

Lit.: potius mansuetudine et innocentiā imperatoris provinciam quam vi militum aut benignitate deorum retentam atque conservatam esse, Cato ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 5, 2:

oppidum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 21 fin.:

arces (Minerva),

to preserve, protect, Cat. 64, 8:

id egit, ut amicos observantiā, rem parsimoniā retineret,

Cic. Quint. 18, 59; cf.:

retinere servareque amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 89:

summos cum infimis pari jure,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41:

Aegyptum,

Curt. 4, 1, 30:

regionem,

id. 6, 5, 21:

neque virtutem qui habet virtute retinetur in vitā,

Cic. Fin. 3, 18, 61 B. and K.: fortunam citius reperias quam retineas, Publ. Syr. 168 Rib. —

Trop.:

retinete (fidem), post factum ut laetemini,

Plaut. Rud. prol. 30:

existimo jus augurum... rei publicae causā conservatum ac retentum,

Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75; so,

jus suum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 37; Caes. B. C. 1, 5:

statum suum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 43:

pristinam virtutem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 48, 91; cf.:

vestigium pristinae dignitatis,

Cic. Sull. 32, 91:

officium,

id. Off. 3, 29, 105:

justitiam (with colere),

id. ib. 2, 12, 42 Beier; id. Inv. 1, 1, 3:

caritatem in pastores,

id. Lael. 19, 70:

utilitatem in amicitiā et fidem,

id. ib. 24, 88:

hunc morem usque adhuc,

id. Rep. 2, 20, 36; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 16:

de finibus retentae defensaeque sententiae,

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 84:

gravitatem retinere, iracundiam pellere,

id. Off. 1, 38, 137:

ferociam animi in vultu,

Sall. C. 61, 4:

memoriam suae pristinae virtutis, tot secundissimorum proeliorum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 21; 7, 62:

aliquid memoriā,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33:

commissa (aures),

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 70 et saep.:

ut Palaemo et Telamo et Plato dicerentur, retinuerunt,

Quint. 1, 5, 60.— With ne, Cic. Rep. 2, 32, 56.—

Post-class. for memoriā retinere, to keep in mind, remember:

sive ille Hasdrubal est, sive quis alius, non retineo,

Gell. 17, 9, 16.—With object-clause:

retineo me dixisse,

Dig. 35, 1, 92 init. — Hence, rĕtĭnens, entis, P. a., holding fast, tenacious, observant of any thing (class.; cf. tenax); constr. with gen.:

homo sui juris dignitatisque retinens,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 11:

nimium equestris juris et libertatis,

id. Planc. 23, 55:

avitae nobilitatis,

Tac. A. 2, 38 fin.:

modestiae,

id. ib. 5, 11:

Seleuci conditoris (civitas),

i. e. retaining his institutions, id. ib. 6, 42; cf.:

antiqui moris,

id. ib. 16, 5 et saep. — Sup.:

proprietatum in verbis retinentissimus,

Gell. 10, 20, 10.

sustĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [subs for sub, and teneo], to hold up, hold upright, uphold, to bear up, keep up, support, sustain (syn. fulcio).

Lit.

In gen.:

onus alicui,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 68:

quantum hominum terra sustinet,

id. Poen. prol. 90; id. Men. 1, 1, 13:

cum Milo umeris sustineret bovem vivum,

Cic. Sen. 10, 33:

arma membraque,

Liv. 23, 45, 3; Curt. 6, 1, 11; 7, 5, 8:

infirmos baculo artus,

to support, Ov. M. 6, 27:

furcis spectacula,

Liv. 1, 35, 9:

ingenuā speculum manu,

Ov. A. A. 2, 216:

fornice exstructo, quo pons sustinebatur, Auct. B. Alex. 19, 4: manibus clipeos et hastam Et galeam,

Ov. H. 3, 119:

vix populum tellus sustinet illa suum,

id. ib. 15 (16), 182:

lapis albus Pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 117:

vas ad sustinenda opsonia,

Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 140:

aër volatus alitum sustinet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: lacus omnia illata pondera sustinens, bearing on its surface, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127:

ecce populus Romanus universus veluti duobus navigiis inpositus binis cardinibus sustinetur,

id. 36, 15, 24, § 119:

domum pluribus adminiculis fulcit ac sustinet,

Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3: se, to support one ' s self, hold one ' s self up, stand, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 25; so,

se a lapsu,

Liv. 21, 35:

se alis,

Ov. M. 4, 411. —

In partic., to hold or keep back, to keep in, stay, check, restrain, control, etc. (syn.: refreno, supprimo, moror): currum equosque, Lucil. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

currum,

id. Lael. 17, 63 (v. infra, II. B. 3.):

equos,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33:

remos,

Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

manum,

Ov. F. 5, 302:

sustinet a jugulo dextram,

Verg. A. 11, 750:

a jugulo nitentem sustinet hastam,

Stat. Th. 2, 648:

flumina Threiciā lyrā,

Prop. 3, 2, 2 (4, 1, 42):

nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen,

Liv. 25, 36, 1:

aliud simile miraculum eos sustinuit,

id. 5, 39, 2:

signa,

id. 31, 24, 8:

gradum,

Ov. F. 6, 398:

perterritum exercitum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 71:

se,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41; Val. Fl. 3, 100:

se ab omni assensu,

i. e. to refrain, Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48:

se a respondendo,

id. ib. 2, 32, 104. — Poet.:

celeres vias,

i. e. to halt, Sen. Hippol. 794.—

Trop.

In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve:

dignitatem et decus civitatis,

Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124:

causam rei publicae,

id. Fam. 9, 8, 2; cf.:

causam publicam,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27:

exspectationem,

id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

tris personas unus sustineo,

characters, id. de Or. 2, 24, 102:

personam magistri,

to personate, Suet. Gram. 24:

quid muneris in rem publicam fungi ac sustinere velitis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, § 199:

historiam veterem atque antiquam haec mea senectus sustinet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 100: vitam, Maecen. ap. Sen. Ep. 101, 11.— Poet.:

(arbor) ingentem sustinet umbram,

Verg. G. 2, 297.—

In partic.

To sustain, support, maintain, by food, money, or other means:

hac (sc. re frumentariā) alimur et sustinemur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, § 11:

veterem amicum suum labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fortunā, fide,

id. Rab. Post. 16, 43:

qui ager non amplius hominum quinque milia potest sustinere,

id. Att. 2, 16, 1:

alicujus munificentiā sustineri,

Liv. 39, 9, 6:

hinc patriam parvosque nepotes Sustinet,

Verg. G. 2, 515:

necessitates aliorum,

Liv. 6, 15, 9:

plebem,

id. 3, 65, 6:

penuriam temporum,

Col. 9, 14, 17.—

To bear, undergo, endure; to hold out against, withstand (so most freq.;

syn.: fero, tolero, patior): mala ferre sustinereque,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 8:

innocens suspitionem hanc sustinet causā meā,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 32:

labores,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3:

aestatem,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 39, 3:

dolorem pedum,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5:

dolores,

id. ib. 1, 12, 8:

certamen,

Liv. 33, 36, 12:

vim hostium,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4:

periculum,

Dig. 18, 6, 1:

o dii, quis hujus potentiam poterit sustinere?

Cic. Phil. 7, 6, 17:

alicujus imperia,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

vulnera,

id. ib. 1, 45:

Philo ea sustinere vix poterat, quae contra Academicorum pertinaciam dicebantur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 2:

Peloponnesum,

Cic. Att. 10, 12, 7: eos (rogantes), Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3; Liv. 31, 13:

senatus querentes eos non sustinuit,

id. 31, 13, 4:

justa petentem deam,

Ov. M. 14, 788:

ferrum ignemque Jovemque,

id. ib. 13, 385 et saep.— Absol.: expectes et sustineas necesse est, Mart. 9, 3, 13:

neque jam sustineri poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Fam. 12, 6, 4; Liv. 29, 6, 17.—

With obj.-clause (mostly with a negative: non sustinet, he cannot bear, cannot endure; he does not take upon himself, does not venture):

non sustineo esse conscius mihi dissimulati judicii mei,

Quint. 3, 6, 64:

non impositos supremis ignibus artus Sustinuit spectare parens,

Ov. M. 13, 584;

so negatively,

id. ib. 1, 530; 6, 367; 6, 606; 9, 439; 10, 47; id. F. 4, 850; Vell. 2, 86, 2. —

In a negative interrog.: sustinebant tales viri, se tot senatoribus, etc.... non credidisse? tantae populi Romani voluntati restitisse? Sustineant. Reperiemus, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

hoc quidem quis hominum sustineat petulans esse ad alterius arbitrium?

Quint. 12, 9, 10; 3, 6, 64:

deserere officii sui partes,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16; 9, 13, 6:

Parmenionem rursus castigare non sustinebat,

Curt. 4, 13, 8; 6, 1, 15:

nec solus bibere sustineo,

id. 7, 5, 12; 7, 6, 15; 8, 5, 7; Vell. 2, 86, 2; Suet. Caes. 75.—Affirmatively:

quem in vinculis habituri erant, sustinuere venerari,

Curt. 5, 10, 13:

colloqui cum eo, quem damnaverat, sustinuit,

id. 6, 8, 16; 7, 5, 38; 10, 5, 25:

quae se praeferre Dianae Sustinuit,

took upon herself, presumed, Ov. M. 11, 322; so,

sustinet ire illuc,

id. ib. 4, 447; 6, 563; id. H. 5, 32; Phaedr. 4, 16, 8: aliquem videre, Auct. Cons. Liv. 135:

si quis aquam... haurire sustineat,

Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 64:

mentiri,

Petr. 116.—

(Acc. to I. B.) To hold in, stop, stay, check, restrain; to keep back, put off, defer, delay:

est igitur prudentis sustinere ut currum sic impetum benevolentiae,

Cic. Lael. 17, 63; so,

impetum hostis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 26; 2, 11;

3, 2 et saep.: subitas hostium incursiones,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; cf.:

Curio praemittit equites, qui primum impetum sustineant ac morentur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 26:

bellum consilio,

Liv. 3, 60, 1:

assensus lubricos,

Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 108:

sustinenda solutio est nominis Caerelliani,

id. Att. 12, 51, 3:

oppugnationem ad noctem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 6:

rem in noctem,

Liv. 5, 35, 7:

iram,

id. 2, 19, 4.

tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].

Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).

Lit.

In gen.:

suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

retia (alicui),

Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

casses alicui,

Tib. 1, 6, 5:

intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

Col. 6, 14, 4:

chordam,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

arcum,

to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

sagittas Arcu,

to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

spicula cornu,

Verg. A. 9, 606:

pariterque oculos telumque,

id. ib. 5, 508:

barbiton,

to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

tympana tenta tonant palmis,

Lucr. 2, 618:

validā lora manu,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

vela (Noti),

to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

Ov. H. 10, 30:

praetorium,

to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

conopia,

Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

cubilia,

Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

bracchia ad caelum,

Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

for which: bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 2, 580;

9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

manus ad aliquem,

id. B. G. 2, 13:

ad sidera palmas,

Verg. A. 1, 93:

super aequora palmas,

Ov. M. 8, 849:

ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

id. P. 2, 9, 65:

manus supplices dis immortalibus,

Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

manus alicui,

Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

manus supinas,

Liv. 3, 50, 5:

manus ripae ulterioris amore,

Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

(conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

id. G. 4, 535:

quo tendant ferrum,

aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —

In partic.:

nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—

Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

insidias alicui,

Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

omnes insidias animis,

Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

animum vigilem,

to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

(lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

Sil. 9, 216:

cursum ad agmina suorum,

id. 10, 73:

iter ad naves,

Verg. A. 1, 656:

iter pennis,

id. ib. 6, 240:

ad dominum iter,

Ov. M. 2, 547:

cursum unde et quo,

Liv. 23, 34, 5:

iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—

To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).

Lit.:

dubito an Venusiam tendam,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

Beneventum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

Verg. A. 2, 321:

ad castra,

Liv. 9, 37:

in castra,

id. 10, 36:

ad aedes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

Suet. Caes. 85:

ad portus,

Ov. M. 15, 690:

Ciconum ad oras,

id. ib. 10, 3:

ad metam,

id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

unde venis? et Quo tendis?

Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

quo tendere pergunt,

Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —

Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

Lucr. 4, 179:

levibus in sublime tendentibus,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

sursum tendit palmes,

Col. 5, 6, 28:

simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

tunc aethera tendit,

Luc. 7, 477:

dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

Verg. A. 6, 541:

gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

Prop. 1, 6, 31.—

Trop.

In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

Liv. 4, 13, 4:

ad majora,

Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

ad eloquium,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

ad suum,

Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

ad Carthaginienses,

id. 24, 5, 8:

cum alii alio tenderent,

id. 24, 28, 1:

in diversum sententiae tendebant,

id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —

To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

(Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

Verg. A. 2, 220:

pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

quod efficere tendimus,

Quint. 9, 1, 21:

fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

tendit disertus haberi,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —

In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

vasto certamine tendunt,

id. ib. 12, 553:

Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

summā vi,

Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

adversus, etc.,

id. 34, 34, 1:

contra,

id. 35, 51, 6:

ultra,

id. 24, 31, 4:

acrius,

Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

acrius contra, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

nihil illi tendere contra,

Verg. A. 9, 377. —

For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

Luc. 7, 328:

hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

Verg. A. 2, 29:

legio latis tendebat in arvis,

id. ib. 8, 605:

isdem castris,

Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

isdem hibernis tendentes,

Tac. H. 1, 55:

Lugduni tendentes,

id. ib. 1, 59:

cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

tendere in campis,

id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

rectissima linea tensa,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

collum,

id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

id. 11, 3, 99:

vox tensior (opp. remissior),

id. 11, 3, 42:

lacerti,

Luc. 7, 469:

rudentes,

id. 2, 683:

frons,

Lucr. 6, 1195:

tormento citharāque tensior,

Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

tĕnĕo, tĕnŭi, tentum, 2 ( perf. subj. tetinerim, Pac. ap. Non. 178, 15:

tetinerit,

Att. ib. 178, 12:

tetinisse,

Pac. ib. 178, 11; fut. perf. tetinero, acc. to Fest. p. 252 Müll. Another collat. form of the perf. tenivi, acc. to Charis. p. 220 P.; Diom. pp. 363 and 369 ib.), v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan-; Gr. tanumai, teinô; Sanscr. tanomi, to stretch, spread; this root appears in many derived meanings; cf. Lat.: tendo, tenuis, tener, tenor, tenus].

Act., to hold, keep, have in the hand, in the mouth, etc.

Lit.

In gen.: Eu. Porrige bracchium, prehende: jam tenes? Cha. Teneo. Eu. Tene, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 42; cf.

argentum,

id. Pers. 3, 3, 9:

cum pyxidem teneret in manu,

Cic. Cael. 26, 63;

for which: aliquid manu,

Quint. 10, 7, 31; Ov. M. 11, 560; id. A. A. 1, 320; Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 34:

aliquid dextrā,

Ov. F. 1, 99:

digitis,

id. ib. 2, 102; id. M. 9, 86; 9, 522:

lacertis,

id. ib. 2, 100 al.:

radicem ore,

Cic. Div. 2, 68, 141:

cibum ore,

Phaedr. 1, 4, 6;

for which: decoctum diu in ore,

Plin. 25, 13, 105, § 166:

aliquem in sinu,

Ov. H. 3, 114;

for which: aliquem sinu,

id. ib. 13, 157:

flabellulum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 50:

facem,

Verg. A. 6, 224:

telum,

Liv. 2, 19. — Prov.: manu tenere aliquid, to seize, grasp, or comprehend a thing which is palpable or evident: aliter leges, aliter philosophi tollunt astutias: leges, quātenus manu tenere possunt;

philosophi, quātenus ratione et intellegentiā,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68; cf.:

cum res non conjecturā, sed oculis ac manibus teneretur,

id. Clu. 7, 20. —

In partic.

With the accessory idea of possession, to hold, i. e. to be master of, have in one ' s power, possess, etc. (syn.:

possideo, habeo): multa hereditatibus, multa emptionibus, multa dotibus tenebantur sine injuriā,

Cic. Off. 2, 23, 81:

quae tenuit dives Achaemenes,

Hor. C. 2, 12, 21:

Evander qui multis ante tempestatibus tenuerat loca,

Liv. 1, 5:

provinciam a praedonibus liberam,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 11, 32:

colles praesidiis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 43:

Formiarum moenia et Lirim,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 8:

tenente Caesare terras,

id. ib. 3, 14, 15:

rem publicam,

Cic. Mur. 39, 83; id. Sest. 19, 44:

summam imperii,

Caes. B. G. 3, 22:

equitum centurias,

Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 3:

alterum cornu,

to command, Nep. Pelop. 4, 3:

provincias aliaque omnia,

Sall. C. 39, 2: scenam, to have sole possession of. [p. 1854] rule over, Suet. Tit. 7. —

Of the possession of the object of affection: te tenet,

Tib. 1, 6, 35; 2, 6, 52; Verg. E. 1, 32; Ov. H. 2, 103 Ruhnk.; 15, 88; id. Am. 3, 7, 3; Phaedr. 2, 2, 4.—In colloq. lang., teneo te, I have you once more, of again seeing the beloved person:

teneone te, Antiphila, maxime animo exoptata meo?

Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 27 Ruhnk.; Sen. Ben. 7, 4; Ov. H. 18, 183; cf.:

et comitem Aenean juxta natumque tenebat Ingrediens,

Verg. A. 8, 308.—Also like our I have you (fast, bound, etc.):

teneo te, inquam, nam ista Academiae est propria sententia,

Cic. Ac. 2, 48, 148; id. Quint. 20, 63.— Absol.: qui tenent (sc. rem publicam), who are in possession of the State, of public affairs:

qui tenent, qui potiuntur,

Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; 2, 18, 1. —

With the accessory idea of firmness, persistence, to hold fast, occupy; to watch, guard, defend; to maintain, retain a thing:

legio locum non tenuit atque in proximum collem se recepit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 44:

montes teneri,

id. B. G. 3, 2:

haec noctu firmis praesidiis tenebantur,

id. ib. 7, 69:

Capitolia celsa tenebat,

Verg. A. 8, 653:

quo teneam Protea nodo?

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 90:

te neque intra Claustra tenebo,

id. C. 3, 11, 44; cf.:

in manicis et Compedibus saevo te sub custode tenebo,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 77: laqueis (se) sensit teneri... fugam frustra tentabat;

at illam Lenta tenet radix exsultantemque coërcet,

Ov. M. 11, 74 sq.; 1, 535:

Athenae tuae sempiternam in arce oleam tenere potuerunt,

Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 2:

agri qui diu aquam tenent,

Pall. Apr. 2, 4:

classem ibi tenebat,

Liv. 31, 46, 8: secundissimo vento cursum tenere, to hold or keep one ' s course, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83; cf.:

vento intermisso cursum non tenuit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 8; 4, 28; so,

cursum,

Cic. Planc. 21, 52; id. Rep. 1, 2, 3 fin.; Quint. 4, 3, 13:

quo iter,

Verg. A. 1, 370; Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 10:

(lunam) fingunt cursus viam sub sole tenere,

Lucr. 5, 714:

tenuit tamen vestigia Bucar,

Liv. 29, 32, 6.—

With the accessory idea of reaching the object aimed at, to reach, attain a place:

montes effuso cursu Sabini petebant et pauci tenuere,

Liv. 1, 37, 4:

regionem,

id. 30, 25, 11:

Tenum,

id. 36, 21, 1:

terram,

id. 37, 16, 4; 37, 11, 5; 37, 13, 4;

26, 29, 4: Hesperiam,

Ov. F. 1, 498:

portus,

id. H. 18, 198; Tac. Agr. 38 fin.:

cum quibus (navibus) Cythnum insulam tenuit,

id. H. 2, 9.—

With the accessory idea of movement impeded, to hold fast, hold back, hinder, restrain, detain, check, control, stay, etc.:

naves, quae vento tenebantur,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22:

quid hic agatur, scire poteris ex eo, qui litteras attulit, quem diutius tenui, quia, etc.,

Cic. Att. 11, 3, 1:

si id te non tenet, advola,

id. Fam. 16, 19:

septimum jam diem Corcyrae tenebamur,

id. ib. 16, 7 init.:

Marcellum ab gerundis rebus valetudo adversa Nolae tenuit,

Liv. 24, 20, 7:

non tenebo te pluribus,

Cic. Fam. 11, 16, 3; cf. absol.:

ne diutius teneam,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 34: solutum (corpus) tenere, Cels. praef. med.; cf.

ventrem,

id. 4, 19 med.:

tene linguam,

Ov. F. 2, 602:

pecus omne tenendum,

Verg. G. 2, 371:

vix a te videor posse tenere manus,

Ov. Am. 1, 4, 10; so,

manus,

id. M. 13, 203; cf.:

manum stomachumque teneto,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 44:

saeva tene cum Berecyntio Cornu tympana,

id. C. 1, 18, 13:

et Phoebi tenuere viam,

i. e. impeded, closed up, Luc. 5, 136:

quo me decet usque teneri?

Verg. A. 5, 384:

lacrimas,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39; so,

lacrimas in morte miserā non tenebamus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

dictator exercitum in stativis tenebat,

Liv. 6, 14, 1. —

Esp.: se tenere, to keep back, remain, stay:

Sabinus castris sese tenebat,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17; 1, 40; Liv. 2, 45, 2:

nullā clade acceptā castris se pavidus tenebat,

id. 3, 26, 3:

Hasdrubal procul ab hoste intervallo tenebat se,

id. 23, 26, 2:

se domi a conventu remotum tenere,

Nep. Dion, 9, 1:

ego tamen teneo ab accusando vix me hercule: sed tamen teneo,

restrain myself, refrain, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2:

nec se tenuit, quin, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 12; cf.

mid.: teneri non potui, quin tibi apertius illud idem his litteris declararem,

id. Att. 15, 14, 2; Just. 6, 7, 10; cf.:

se intra silentium tenuit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 8:

multum me intra silentium tenui,

id. ib. 7, 6, 6.—

Trop.

In gen., to hold, contain in the mind, to conceive, comprehend, know (syn.:

percipio, intellego): nunc ego teneo, nunc scio, Quid sit hoc negotii,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 39: tenes Quorsum haec tendant quae loquor, id. Ps. 1, 2, 81:

tenes, quid dicam?

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 22:

teneo,

I understand, id. And. 1, 1, 59:

teneo quid erret,

id. 3, 2, 18; Cic. Rep. 1, 23, 37; cf.: quibus capiatur Caesar, tenes, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 5:

quae a Romanis auguribus ignorantur, a Cilicibus... Lyciis tenentur,

Cic. Div. 1, 15, 25:

quoniam ea, quae tenebatis ipsi, etiam ex me audire voluistis,

id. Rep. 1, 46, 70:

alicujus reconditos sensus,

id. Sest. 10, 22:

quo pacto cuncta tenerem,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 8:

et teneo melius ista,

Mart. 4, 37, 7.—With inf.:

nullus frugi esse homo potest, nisi qui et bene facere et male tenet,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 10; Lucr. 3, 647.—

In partic.

To have possession of, have the mastery of, to control any thing:

cum rem publicam opes paucorum non virtutes tenere coeperunt,

Cic. Rep. 1, 34, 51.—

To hold fast, guard, preserve, uphold, keep, insist (syn. servo):

sin consuetudinem meam, quam in re publicā semper habui, tenuero,

Cic. Phil. 1, 11, 27:

ordinem,

id. ib. 5, 13, 35:

portum,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 21:

statum,

id. Rep. 1, 28, 44:

non tenebat ornatum suum civitas,

id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

si jus suum populi teneant,

id. ib. 1, 32, 48:

nec diutius umquam tenetur idem rei publicae modus,

id. ib. 1, 44, 68:

est boni viri, haec duo tenere in amicitiā, etc.,

id. Lael. 18, 65:

morem,

id. Off. 3, 10, 44; so id. Fl. 7, 15; Verg. A. 3, 408:

foedus,

Cic. Balb. 15, 34:

tenebat non modo auctoritatem, sed etiam imperium in suos,

id. Sen. 11, 37:

silentium,

Liv. 1, 28, 8.—

To hold fast, maintain, support, defend, uphold, insist:

illud arcte tenent accurateque defendunt, voluptatem esse summum bonum,

hold fast, maintain, Cic. Par. 1, 3, 14; cf.:

illud, quod multos annos tenuisset,

id. Ac. 2, 22, 71; and:

quod idem Peripatetici non tenent,

id. Fin. 3, 13, 44:

propositum tenere,

to maintain, Caes. B. C. 3, 42, 1:

suas leges,

Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 13:

causam apud centumviros,

id. Caecin. 24, 67:

quo causae teste tenentur,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 43:

locum quendam cum aliquo,

Cic. Brut. 21, 81.— With ne:

plebs tenuit, ne consules in proximum annum crearentur,

Liv. 4, 30, 16:

ne quid ferretur ad populum, patres tenuere,

id. 3, 29, 8; 24, 19, 7. — With ut:

tenuere patres, ut Fabius consul crearetur,

Liv. 2, 42, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.:

scripseram tenuisse Varenum ut sibi evocare testes liceret,

Plin. Ep. 6, 5, 1.—

Of memory:

alicujus memoriam cum summā benevolentiā tenere,

to recollect, preserve a recollection of, Cic. Fam. 6, 2, 1.—Esp.:

memoriā tenere: memoriā tenetis, compluris in Capitolio res de caelo esse percussas,

you remember, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; id. Fam. 1, 9, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14; cf.:

memoriā teneo, C. Sulpicium Gallum, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 14, 21; v. memoria; so without memoria, to bear in mind, remember, recollect:

satin' haec meministi et tenes?

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 1:

numeros memini, si verba tenerem,

Verg. E. 9, 45:

dicta tenere,

Hor. A. P. 336; id. S. 2, 4, 8:

quem (Cyrum) omnia militum tenuisse creditum est nomina,

Quint. 11, 2, 50; 11, 2, 45.—

To reach an object striven after, to gain, acquire, obtain, attain (syn. assequor):

per cursum rectum regnum tenere,

Cic. Agr. 2, 17, 44:

Servium Tullium post hunc captivā natum, ingenio virtute regnum tenuisse,

Liv. 4, 3, 12:

teneri res aliter non potest,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 3:

multa tenuisse,

Liv. 42, 11, 8:

causam,

Ov. M. 13, 190.—

To hold, hold back, repress, restrain, bind, fetter, etc. (syn.:

refreno, retineo): iracundiam teneat, avaritiam coërceat,

Cic. Par. 5, 1, 33:

dolorem,

id. Att. 12, 38, 2:

cupiditates,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 3:

somnum,

id. Brut. 80, 278:

risum,

id. Vatin. 8, 20; Hor. A. P. 5:

iram,

Curt. 4, 2, 5:

ea, quae occurrant, tenere,

to hold back, keep to themselves, Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221.—

Of laws, etc., to bind, hold, obligate, be binding on, control, etc.:

quamquam leges eum non tenent,

Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11; cf.:

interdicto non teneri,

id. Caecin. 14, 41:

voto quodam et promisso teneri,

id. Att. 12, 18, 1:

ut plebi scita omnes Quirites tenerent,

Liv. 8, 12, 14; cf.:

olim patricii dicebant se plebi scitis non teneri,

Gai. Inst. 1, 3:

cum velut in controverso jure esset, tenerenturne patres plebi scitis, legem tulere, ut quod tributim plebis jussisset, populum teneret,

Liv. 3, 55, 3:

teneri alienis foederibus,

id. 24, 29, 11: poenā teneri, to be subject or liable to, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5:

testibus in re perspicuā teneri,

to be convicted, id. Caecin. 2, 4; cf.: nemo ita in manifesto peccatu tenebatur, ut, etc., id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191:

caedis teneri,

Quint. 5, 14, 11:

teneri repetundarum,

Tac. A. 11, 7 fin.:

furti,

Dig. 6, 1, 4:

injuriarum,

ib. 47, 10, 11:

mandati,

ib. 17, 1, 10.— Transf.:

nisi illi ipsi, qui eas (libidines) frangere deberent, cupiditatis ejusdem tenerentur,

Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 31 Mos. and Orell. N. cr. —

Of dispositions, desires, etc., to possess, occupy, control:

quae te tanta pravitas mentis tenuerit, ut, etc.,

has had possession of you, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14:

summum me eorum (librorum) studium tenet,

id. Att. 1, 11, 3:

magna me spes tenet,

id. Tusc. 1, 41, 97:

de triumpho nulla me cupiditas umquam tenuit,

id. Att. 7, 2, 6:

si consilio pulso libidines iracundiaeve tenerent omnia,

id. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

nisi forte quem inhonesta et perniciosa libido tenet,

Sall. J. 3, 4: neque irā neque gratiā teneri, to be controlled or influenced, Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 45; so,

teneri desiderio,

id. Sen. 10, 33:

studio philosophiae,

id. Ac. 1, 2, 4:

magno amore,

Verg. A. 1, 675:

pompā, ludis atque ejusmodi spectaculis teneri,

to be enchained, fascinated, Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 48; cf.:

ut oculi picturā teneantur, aures cantibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 20:

is qui audit, ab oratore jam obsessus est ac tenetur,

id. Or. 62, 210.—With ne, Ov. M. 7, 146. —

To take in, comprise, comprehend, include:

haec magnos formula reges, Excepto sapiente, tenet,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 46.—More freq. pass.: teneri aliquā re, to be contained, comprised, grounded, to consist in a thing:

ut homines deorum agnatione et gente teneantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 23:

id quod (genus officiorum) teneatur hominum societate,

id. Off. 1, 45, 160:

quae (causae) familiaritate et consuetudine tenentur,

id. Fam. 13, 29, 1:

dixi jam antea, ipsam rationem arandi spe magis et jucunditate quadam quam fructu atque emolumento teneri,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227.

Neutr. (freq. after the Aug. per.; perh. not in Cic.).

Lit.

To hold a position anywhere, maintain one ' s self:

quā abscisae rupes erant, statio paucorum armatorum tenebat,

Liv. 32, 5, 12:

duo extra ordinem milia tenuere,

id. 3, 62, 7:

tenent Danai, quā deficit ignis,

Verg. A. 2, 505.—

For cursum tenere, to hold or take one ' s way, to sail, steer in any direction:

Aeneam... ab Siciliā classe ad Laurentem agrum tenuisse,

Liv. 1, 1, 4:

Cassandream petentes, primo ad Mendin tenuere,

Liv. 31, 45, 14:

ad Mendaeum,

id. 21, 49, 2:

Diam,

Ov. M. 3, 690:

Creten,

id. ib. 13, 706:

Hesperiam,

id. F. 1, 498:

Ausoniam,

id. ib. 4, 290 al.:

medio tutissimus ibis... Inter utrumque tene,

Ov. M. 2, 140.—

Trop., with the accessory idea of continuance (cf. I. A. 2. b. and B. 2. b. supra), to hold out, hold on, last, endure, continue, maintain itself, prevail, etc. (cf. obtineo):

imber per noctem totam tenuit,

Liv. 23, 44, 6; cf.:

incendium per duas noctes ac diem unum tenuit,

id. 24, 47, 15:

per aliquot dies ea consultatio tenuit,

id. 2, 3, 5; 3, 47, 6:

tenet fama, lupam, etc.,

id. 1, 4, 6:

quod nunc quoque tenet nomen,

id. 1, 17, 6:

fama tenuit, haud plus fuisse modio,

id. 23, 12, 2; 21, 46, 10:

tenuit consuetudo, quae cottidie magis invalescit, ut, etc.,

Quint. 2, 1, 1 Spald.; so,

consuetudo, ut, etc.,

id. 8, 5, 2:

nomen illud tenet,

id. 9, 4, 47 Spald.; cf. Ov. M. 1, 712.

tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].

Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).

Lit.

In gen.:

suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

retia (alicui),

Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

casses alicui,

Tib. 1, 6, 5:

intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

Col. 6, 14, 4:

chordam,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

arcum,

to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

sagittas Arcu,

to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

spicula cornu,

Verg. A. 9, 606:

pariterque oculos telumque,

id. ib. 5, 508:

barbiton,

to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

tympana tenta tonant palmis,

Lucr. 2, 618:

validā lora manu,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

vela (Noti),

to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

Ov. H. 10, 30:

praetorium,

to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

conopia,

Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

cubilia,

Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

bracchia ad caelum,

Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

for which: bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 2, 580;

9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

manus ad aliquem,

id. B. G. 2, 13:

ad sidera palmas,

Verg. A. 1, 93:

super aequora palmas,

Ov. M. 8, 849:

ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

id. P. 2, 9, 65:

manus supplices dis immortalibus,

Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

manus alicui,

Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

manus supinas,

Liv. 3, 50, 5:

manus ripae ulterioris amore,

Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

(conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

id. G. 4, 535:

quo tendant ferrum,

aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —

In partic.:

nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—

Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

insidias alicui,

Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

omnes insidias animis,

Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

animum vigilem,

to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

(lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

Sil. 9, 216:

cursum ad agmina suorum,

id. 10, 73:

iter ad naves,

Verg. A. 1, 656:

iter pennis,

id. ib. 6, 240:

ad dominum iter,

Ov. M. 2, 547:

cursum unde et quo,

Liv. 23, 34, 5:

iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—

To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).

Lit.:

dubito an Venusiam tendam,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

Beneventum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

Verg. A. 2, 321:

ad castra,

Liv. 9, 37:

in castra,

id. 10, 36:

ad aedes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

Suet. Caes. 85:

ad portus,

Ov. M. 15, 690:

Ciconum ad oras,

id. ib. 10, 3:

ad metam,

id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

unde venis? et Quo tendis?

Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

quo tendere pergunt,

Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —

Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

Lucr. 4, 179:

levibus in sublime tendentibus,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

sursum tendit palmes,

Col. 5, 6, 28:

simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

tunc aethera tendit,

Luc. 7, 477:

dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

Verg. A. 6, 541:

gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

Prop. 1, 6, 31.—

Trop.

In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

Liv. 4, 13, 4:

ad majora,

Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

ad eloquium,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

ad suum,

Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

ad Carthaginienses,

id. 24, 5, 8:

cum alii alio tenderent,

id. 24, 28, 1:

in diversum sententiae tendebant,

id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —

To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

(Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

Verg. A. 2, 220:

pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

quod efficere tendimus,

Quint. 9, 1, 21:

fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

tendit disertus haberi,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —

In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

vasto certamine tendunt,

id. ib. 12, 553:

Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

summā vi,

Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

adversus, etc.,

id. 34, 34, 1:

contra,

id. 35, 51, 6:

ultra,

id. 24, 31, 4:

acrius,

Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

acrius contra, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

nihil illi tendere contra,

Verg. A. 9, 377. —

For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

Luc. 7, 328:

hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

Verg. A. 2, 29:

legio latis tendebat in arvis,

id. ib. 8, 605:

isdem castris,

Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

isdem hibernis tendentes,

Tac. H. 1, 55:

Lugduni tendentes,

id. ib. 1, 59:

cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

tendere in campis,

id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

rectissima linea tensa,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

collum,

id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

id. 11, 3, 99:

vox tensior (opp. remissior),

id. 11, 3, 42:

lacerti,

Luc. 7, 469:

rudentes,

id. 2, 683:

frons,

Lucr. 6, 1195:

tormento citharāque tensior,

Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

tendo ( tenno), tĕtendi, tentum and tensum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ten-, tan, v. teneo; cf. Gr. teinô].

Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).

Lit.

In gen.:

suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas?

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68:

plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.:

retia (alicui),

Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.:

casses alicui,

Tib. 1, 6, 5:

intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur,

Col. 6, 14, 4:

chordam,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55:

arcum,

to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.:

sagittas Arcu,

to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.:

spicula cornu,

Verg. A. 9, 606:

pariterque oculos telumque,

id. ib. 5, 508:

barbiton,

to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.:

tympana tenta tonant palmis,

Lucr. 2, 618:

validā lora manu,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72:

vela (Noti),

to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268:

praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto,

Ov. H. 10, 30:

praetorium,

to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30:

conopia,

Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29:

cubilia,

Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176:

bracchia ad caelum,

Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293;

for which: bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 2, 580;

9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so,

manus ad aliquem,

id. B. G. 2, 13:

ad sidera palmas,

Verg. A. 1, 93:

super aequora palmas,

Ov. M. 8, 849:

ad aliquem orantia bracchia,

id. P. 2, 9, 65:

manus supplices dis immortalibus,

Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.:

vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis,

id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so,

manus alicui,

Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146:

manus supinas,

Liv. 3, 50, 5:

manus ripae ulterioris amore,

Verg. A. 6, 314; cf.

also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae,

stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9:

(conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum,

reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674:

tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem,

id. G. 4, 535:

quo tendant ferrum,

aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489:

qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit,

stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —

In partic.:

nervum tendere, in mal. part.,

Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—

Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

insidias alicui,

Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35:

omnes insidias animis,

Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

animum vigilem,

to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.:

sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus,

i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2:

aestivam sermone benigno noctem,

to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11:

(lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum,

to direct, Lucr. 5, 631:

cursum ex acie in Capitolia,

Sil. 9, 216:

cursum ad agmina suorum,

id. 10, 73:

iter ad naves,

Verg. A. 1, 656:

iter pennis,

id. ib. 6, 240:

ad dominum iter,

Ov. M. 2, 547:

cursum unde et quo,

Liv. 23, 34, 5:

iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens,

tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—

To direct one ' s self or one ' s course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one ' s course in any direction (class.).

Lit.:

dubito an Venusiam tendam,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3:

Beneventum,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 71:

cursuque amens ad limina tendit,

Verg. A. 2, 321:

ad castra,

Liv. 9, 37:

in castra,

id. 10, 36:

ad aedes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89:

ad domum Bruti et Cassii,

Suet. Caes. 85:

ad portus,

Ov. M. 15, 690:

Ciconum ad oras,

id. ib. 10, 3:

ad metam,

id. ib. 15, 453; cf.:

cum alter ad alterum tenderemus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9:

unde venis? et Quo tendis?

Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70:

quo tendere pergunt,

Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6:

tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes,

Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —

Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.:

in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat,

Lucr. 4, 179:

levibus in sublime tendentibus,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11:

sursum tendit palmes,

Col. 5, 6, 28:

simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt,

Lucr. 4, 609.— Poet., with acc. of direction:

tunc aethera tendit,

Luc. 7, 477:

dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,

Verg. A. 6, 541:

gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem,

reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, § 176:

Taurus mons ad occasum tendens,

id. 5, 27, 27, § 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, § 35; 16, 30, 53, § 122; cf.:

Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt,

id. 6, 13, 15, § 40:

seu mollis quā tendit Ionia,

Prop. 1, 6, 31.—

Trop.

In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction:

ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo,

Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

ad altiora et non concessa tendere,

Liv. 4, 13, 4:

ad majora,

Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27:

ad eloquium,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17:

ad suum,

Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.:

ad Carthaginienses,

id. 24, 5, 8:

cum alii alio tenderent,

id. 24, 28, 1:

in diversum sententiae tendebant,

id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —

To exert one ' s self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.:

(Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos,

Verg. A. 2, 220:

pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae [p. 1853] civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1:

quod efficere tendimus,

Quint. 9, 1, 21:

fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 51:

tendit disertus haberi,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 16:

aqua tendit rumpere plumbum,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.:

miles tendere, inde ad jurgium,

insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —

In partic., to exert one ' s self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.):

nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus,

Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies;

vasto certamine tendunt,

id. ib. 12, 553:

Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere,

Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.:

summā vi,

Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.:

adversus, etc.,

id. 34, 34, 1:

contra,

id. 35, 51, 6:

ultra,

id. 24, 31, 4:

acrius,

Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.:

acrius contra, ut, etc.,

Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6:

quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc.,

what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.:

nihil illi tendere contra,

Verg. A. 9, 377. —

For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp:

qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores,

Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.:

omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo,

Luc. 7, 328:

hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles,

Verg. A. 2, 29:

legio latis tendebat in arvis,

id. ib. 8, 605:

isdem castris,

Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.:

isdem hibernis tendentes,

Tac. H. 1, 55:

Lugduni tendentes,

id. ib. 1, 59:

cum multitudo laxius tenderet,

Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37:

tendere in campis,

id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare):

rectissima linea tensa,

Quint. 3, 6, 83:

collum,

id. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

remissis magis quam tensis (digitis),

id. 11, 3, 99:

vox tensior (opp. remissior),

id. 11, 3, 42:

lacerti,

Luc. 7, 469:

rudentes,

id. 2, 683:

frons,

Lucr. 6, 1195:

tormento citharāque tensior,

Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.