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  • 1 tenus

    1.
    tĕnus, ŏris, n. [root ten-; Gr. teinô; v. teneo], = tenos, a cord, snare, gin, springe:

    intendere tenus,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 23; cf.:

    tenus est laqueus, dictus a tendiculā,

    Non. 6, 12:

    tenus est proprie extrema pars arcūs,

    Serv. Verg. A. 6, 62.
    2.
    tĕnus [root ten; v. teneo], perh. orig., an acc. of direction, and hence joined with gen.; afterwards a prep. with abl. (its supposed construction with the acc. rests upon a false reading in the passages, Ov. H. 12, 27; Val. Fl. 1, 537; Suet. Caes. 52, where the abl. is the true reading), prop. lengthwise, to the end; hence, as far as, up or down to, unto, to (placed after its case; mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cæs.).
    I.
    In gen. ( a) With gen. plur. (so not in the prose of Cicero):

    labrorum tenus,

    along the lips, Lucr. 1, 940; 4, 15:

    lumborum tenus,

    as far as the loins, Cic. Arat. 83 (324):

    crurum tenus,

    Verg. G. 3, 53:

    laterum tenus,

    id. A. 10, 210:

    per aquam ferme genūs tenus altam,

    Liv. 44, 40, 8: aurium tenus, * Quint. 12, 2, 17: illi rumores Cumarum tenus caluerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 2:

    urbium Corcyrae tenus,

    Liv. 26, 24, 11.—
    (β).
    With abl. (so most freq. in prose and poetry):

    Tauro tenus,

    Cic. Deiot. 13, 36; Nep. Con. 2, 3:

    Arimino tenus,

    Suet. Aug. 30:

    Antio tenus,

    id. Tib. 38:

    Ostiā tenus,

    id. Ner. 16:

    Aethiopiā tenus,

    id. Caes. 52:

    erat pectoribus tenus,

    Liv. 21, 54, 9:

    inguinibus tenus,

    Cels. 1, 3:

    pube tenus,

    Verg. A. 3, 427:

    summo tenus ore,

    id. ib. 1, 737:

    collo tenus,

    Ov. M. 2, 275:

    pectoribus tenus,

    id. ib. 15, 512;

    15, 673: poplite deinde tenus,

    id. ib. 5, 593:

    pennis tenus,

    id. ib. 6, 258:

    mediā tenus alvo,

    id. F. 2, 145:

    lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem,

    Verg. A. 2, 553:

    poti faece tenus cadi,

    Hor. C. 3, 15, 16:

    tres regiones solo tenus dejectae,

    Tac. A. 15, 40 fin.:

    tectis tenus,

    id. ib. 13, 41:

    extollere caelo tenus,

    Just. 12, 6, 2.—Of time:

    Cantabrico tenus bello nec ultra,

    Suet. Aug. 85; cf.:

    volneribus tenus, of the fighting of gladiators,

    Liv. 41, 20, 12 et saep.—So the compounds, eātenus, hactenus, quātenus, quādantenus, v. h. vv.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    After, according to, by:

    tertium et quartum consulatum titulo tenus gessit,

    Suet. Caes. 76; so,

    titulo tenus,

    id. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 1, 31:

    facie tenus,

    i. e. for the sake of appearances, App. M. 10, p. 250, 9:

    specie tenus,

    Amm. 14, 7, 5:

    terrore tenus,

    id. 16, 8, 3.—
    B.
    Verbo tenus, less freq. nomine tenus, as far as the meaning of the word extends, in name, nominally (very rare):

    veteres verbo tenus... de re publicā disserebant,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; Liv. 34, 5, 4:

    haec verba cum affectu accipimus, non verbo tenus,

    Dig. 2, 2, 1 med.:

    usurpatas nomine tenus urbium expugnationes dictitans,

    Tac. A. 15, 6 fin.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > tenus

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