Extento, extentas, extentâre, Frequentat. Plant. To stretche often.Extentare vires.To thrust out strength in doing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
extento, āre, v. freq. a. [id.], to stretch out, extend (ante- and post-class.). I.Lit.: nervos, Lucr. 3, 490: humeros angustos, Amm. 22, 14.—II.Trop.: vires alieno ostio, i. e.
to exert
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try
, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 3: quid tu venisti huc te extentatum?id. Most. 3, 1, 66, v. Ritschl ad h. l.