to keep back, hinder, delay, detain, impede, retard:
(stellarum) motūs retardantur: equos retardant
Flumina, V.: tua ne retardet Aura maritos, H.:
in quo cursu, tum retardando, tum, etc., lagging
behind.—Fig., to retard, repress, check, keep back, avert, hinder: ad quem (agrum) fruendum: impetūs hostium esse intellegunt
retardatos: celeritatem persequendi: animos testium: auxilium: me a
scribendo.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
A gift in the name of Carol F. Ross provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
