dētĭnĕo
transitive verb II conjugation

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1 to detain, to hold
2 to hold off, to keep away (from)
3 to hold prisoner
4 to retain
5 to occupy
6 to hold, to keep back from use
7 to keep, to cause to remain
8 to reserve
9 to delay end, to protract

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Aetionis tabula te stupidum detinet || ab incepto me ambitio mala detinuerat = a fatal ambition took me away from that intention || alium venti segnes ludunt ac detinent … || a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, eodem regressus = returned to that intent and that vocation from whom I was deterred by an evil ambition




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