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sue for payment of a debt

  • 1 praetendo

    prae-tendo, di, tum ( part. praetensus, Anthol. Lat. 3, 168, 5), 3, v. a., to stretch forth or forward, to extend (syn. obtendo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    praetenta Tela,

    stretched forth, presented, Ov. M. 8, 341: propagines e vitibus altius praetentos, shooting forth, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 13: ubi visum in culice natura praetendit? set out, stationed (i. e. extendit, et posuit in anteriore oris parte), Plin. 11, 1, 2, § 2.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To spread before or in front:

    membrana, quae praecordia appellant, quia cordi praetenditur,

    Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197; 9, 6, 5, § 15.—
    2.
    To spread, draw, hold, or place a thing before another:

    segeti praetendere saepem,

    Verg. G. 1, 270:

    vestem tumidis praetendit ocellis,

    holds before, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 79:

    ramum praetendit olivae,

    holds out, Verg. A. 8, 116:

    fumosque manu praetende sequaces,

    id. G. 4, 230:

    decreto sermonem,

    to prefix, Liv. 3, 47:

    quicquid castrorum Armeniis praetenditur,

    Tac. H. 2, 6:

    ut adnexa classis et pugnae parata conversā et minaci fronte praetenderetur,

    id. ib. 2, 14.—
    b.
    Of places: praetendi, to stretch out before or in front of, to lie over against or opposite to ( poet. and post - Aug.;

    once in Liv.): praetentaque Syrtibus arva,

    Verg. A. 6, 60:

    tenue litus praetentum,

    Liv. 10, 2, 5:

    Armeniae praetentus Iber,

    Val. Fl. 5, 167:

    gens nostris provinciis late praetenta,

    Tac. A. 2, 56:

    Baeticae latere septentrionali praetenditur Lusitania,

    Plin. 3, 1, 2, § 6: a tergo praetendantur Aethiopes, id. 5, 9, 9, § 48; 6, 27, 31, § 134:

    Dardanis laevo Triballi praetenduntur,

    id. 4, 1, 1, § 3:

    extremis legio praetenta Britannis, i. e. opposita custodiae causa,

    Claud. B. Get. 416.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To hold out or bring forward as an excuse, to allege, pretend, simulate (syn.:

    causor, praetexo): hominis doctissimi nomen tuis immanibus et barbaris moribus (soles) praetendere,

    to allege in excuse for, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14:

    praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae,

    Ov. R. Am. 240:

    legem postulationi suae praetendere,

    Liv. 3, 45, 1:

    quid honestum dictu saltem seditioni praetenditur muliebri?

    id. 34, 3, 8:

    meminisse, quem titulum praetenderitis adversus Philippum,

    id. 37, 54, 13:

    decem legatorum decretum calumniae inpudentissimae,

    id. 39, 28, 11: vultum, et tristitiam, et dissentientem a ceteris habitum pessimis moribus praetendebant, Quint. prooem. § 15; Plin. Ep. 4, 16, 3:

    ignorantia praetendi non potest,

    Quint. 7, 1, 35:

    haec a se factitari praetendebat,

    Tac. A. 6, 18:

    praetendere fessam aetatem et actos labores,

    id. ib. 3, 59; Flor. 3, 5, 3:

    plebeiam facie tenus praetendens humanitatem,

    App. M. 10, 23, p. 250, 9.—
    B.
    To put forward, hold out, allege, assert a thing:

    nec conjugis umquam Praetendi taedas,

    I never pretended to be your husband, Verg. A. 4, 338:

    debitum,

    to demand a debt, sue for payment of a debt, Dig. 2, 14, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > praetendo

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