distenno

dis-tendo (and vulg. distenno), di, tum (in late Lat. also distensus, Coripp. Joann. 7, 324; but in Auct. B. Alex. 45, 2, the right reading is dispersis), 3, v. a., to stretch asunder, stretch out, extend (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; not in Cic.).

Lit.:

dispennite hominem divorsum et distennite,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 14; cf.:

Tityos novem Jugeribus distentus erat,

Ov. M. 4, 458:

brachia,

id. ib. 4, 491:

corpus temonibus,

Col. 6, 19 fin.: aciem, * Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2; cf.:

copias hostium,

Liv. 2, 23:

hostes,

id. 34, 29:

sagum,

Suet. Oth. 2:

in currus distentum illigat Mettum,

Liv. 1, 28; so,

utramque manum in latus,

Quint. 11, 3, 114: pontem in agros, Lue. 4, 140.— Pass. in mid. force:

haec per octoginta sex milia distenduntur,

extend, Mart. Cap. 6, § 661.—

Meton.

(Effectus pro causa.) To swell out, distend, i. e. to fill, e. g. with food:

ventres,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 19:

ubera cytiso,

Verg. E. 9, 31; cf.:

ubera lacte,

id. ib. 4, 21;

and transf.: capellas lacte,

id. ib. 7, 3:

ducem (i. e. bovem) denso pingui,

id. G. 3, 124:

cellas nectare,

id. A. 1, 433; cf.:

horrea plena spicis,

Tib. 2, 5, 84.—

(Causa pro effectu.) To torture by distention:

tormento aliquem,

Suet. Tib. 62; cf. Vulg. Heb. 11, 35.—

Trop.:

velut in duo pariter bella curas hominum,

to divide, Liv. 27, 40; cf.:

curam vilicae,

Col. 12, 46, 1:

sedulitatem vilici,

id. 1, 6, 8:

animos,

to distract, perplex, Liv. 9, 12 fin.; Vulg. Eccl. 3, 10.— Hence, distentus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 1.), distended, i. e. filled up, full:

ubera,

Hor. Epod. 2, 46; cf.:

distentum cruribus uber,

Ov. M. 13, 826:

distentius uber,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 110:

distentus ac madens,

stuffed full, Suet. Claud. 33; cf. Plin. Pan. 49, 6.