To withholde: to restraine from liber tie: to let or cause to tarrie. Detinere aliquem & demorari. Lentulus ad Senatum. To let and stay one. Detinere aliquem lepore. Cic. With pleasauntnesse to keepe attent in hearing. Detinere aliquem de suo negotio. Plau. To let one from his businesse. Detineri in alienis negotijs. Cic. To be sraied and letted. Animum studijs detineo. Oui. I occupie my mind in studie. Compede detinere. Horat. To keepe in fetters. Diem detinere sermone. Ouid. To prolong on the day with talke. Detinere fetas cithara. Martial. With playing on the harpe to delite wilde beastes. Fugam detinere. Ouid. To ceese running away. Vt non plus darent iuris, qum detinerent. Liui. That they shoulde giue no more right than they would reteine. Detincre aliquem lenta mora. Mart. Detinet me hoc negotium. Plaut. This businesse staieth me. Maiore aliquo negotio detineri. Author ad Heren. Detinent terras niues. Plini. The snow lieth long vppon the grounde. Carmina oculos decinent. Oui. The verses in the booke hold him verie attent in reading. Detines me suspensum Cic. Thou keepest me long in doubt. Vela detinere. Ouid. Detineri ventis. Plin. iun. To be stayed by contrarie winds.

I. Lit. (class.): nos de nostro negotio, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 190: aliquem ab aliquo incepto studioque, Sall. C. 4, 2: aliquem apud villam, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 13: so, aliquem, id. Men. 4, 2, 22; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 49; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 5 (with demorari), Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 3 Oud. N. cr.; Liv. 4, 55 (opp. concire); Verg. A. 2, 788; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 5: me grata compede Myrtale, id. Od. 1, 33, 14; Ov. M. 13, 301 et saep.: novissimos proelio, Caes. B. C. 3, 75, 4; cf.: Hannibalem quam acerrimo bello, Liv. 27, 12: se miserandis alimentis detinuerat, had supported himself, Tac. A. 6, 23: naves tempestatibus detinebantur, Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.: rates voce canora, Ov. A. A. 3, 311: iter iratae anguis (cantus), Tib. 1, 8, 20: illum ne discederet, Vulg. Luc. 4, 42.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen. (poet.), to delay, i. e. lengthen: euntem multa loquendo Detinuit sermone diem, Ov. M. 1, 683; cf. tempus, id. Pont. 4, 10, 67.—

B. Esp., to occupy, engage (also class.): in alienis negotiis detineri, Cic. Inv. 2, 45, 132; cf. Quint. 10, 5, 17: in contumelia, Tac. A. 13, 36 fin.: in admiratione sui, Suet. Ner. 52: manus in lyricis modis, Ov. F. 5, 386: mentes hominum circa alia, Plin. H. N. 14 prooem. 4: animum studiis, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 39: oculos (mea poëmata), id. ib. 2, 520; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 63: animos in timore, Hirt. B. Afr. 72, 3.—

C. To hold in the mind, know: veritatem Dei in injustitia, Vulg. Rom. 1, 18.