To harden or make harde: to sustaine, or suffer: to endure or continue. Vngulas durare. Col. To harden the hoofes. Durare & Mollire, contraria. Cels. Sorba durant ventrem. Mart. Make costiffe: stop the bellie. Ego ad hoc genus hominum duraui. Plautus. My hearte is hardned toward these kinde of men. Ad plagas durari. Quint. To be hardned against beating. Durari in grana. Plin. Grewe into hard kernels. Animum durare. Oui. To harden ones hearte: not to heare. Vitia durantur, per translationem. Quin. Faultes bee fastned hard, andgrowne to a stay in men. Durare, & vosmet rebus seruate secundis. Virgil. Harden your selfe, and suffer patiently, &c. Laborem durare. To sustaine and abide labour. -vix durare carinæ Possunt imperiosius Æquor. Hor. The shippes be scantly able to abide the tempestuous and troublous sea. Durare cor. Patienter ferre. Plaut. To hearden the heart. Durare nequeo in ædibus. Plaut. I can no longer abide in the house. Non hercle hîc quidem durare quisquam, si sic fit, potest. Te. No man can abide here. &c. Nequeo durare, quin ego herum accusem meum. Plautus. I cannot any longer forbeare, but that I must. Durare. pro Viuere. Plini. Durasse & vltra vndecimum plerósque certum est. To haue liued aboue, &c. Pertinacissimedurare. Quint. To bee so fastened as it wil not be separated. Æternum durabit. Stat. It wil continue for euer. In æternum durare. Qui. In longum æuum durare. Oui. Vt tibi durem diu. Plaut. That I may continue with thee a long tyme. Amicitiæ vsque ad senectutem firmissimæ durant. Quintil Continue most stedfaste. Durauit hic illi animus vsque ad extremum. Plin. iuni. Hee continued in this mind. Totidem durare per annos. Virg. In extremum durare. Ouid. To continue to the end. Horam durare. Hor. To concinue or abide an houres space. Sub Ioue durare. Ouid. Ira manet, durátque dolor. Val. Flac. In longum durare. Sta. To continue long. In longas moras durare. Ouid. Durat in occasum. Plini. It continueth till the sunne going downe. Durare in noctem. Plin. To continue til night. In feras durant sermonibus vmbras. Val. Fla. They continue to talke togither till it be late in the night.

I. Lit.

(a). Act.: quae nobis durata ac spissa videntur, Haec, etc., Lucr. 2, 444; so in the part. perf.: coria (with condurare ferrum), id. 6, 970; cf. cutis, Ov. M. 4, 577: caementa calce (opp. interlita luto), Liv. 21, 11: ova in aqua, Plin. 29, 3, 11, 45: pontus frigore, Ov. P. 4, 9, 85: nives solo, Hor. C. 3, 24, 39: aqua salibus, i. e. strongly saturated, Col. 7, 4 fin., v. durus, I.: ungulas (mularum), id. 6, 37, 11: ferrum ictibus, Plin. 34, 15, 43, 149: guttas in grana, id. 12, 19, 42, 94: uvam fumo, i. e. to dry, preserve, Hor. S. 2, 4, 72.—In medic. lang.: corpus, i. e. to bind, make costive, opp. mollire, Cels. 2, 14; cf. id. 2, 33 fin.—In fullers' lang., to harden, stiffen or full cloth: Art. Non queo durare. Par. Si non didicisti fulloniam, non mirandumst, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 57 (with a punning reference to the meaning II. A. 2.).—

(b). Neutr.: tum durare solum et discludere Nerea ponto Coeperit, i. q. durescere, Verg. E. 6, 35; so, vino minime durante, uva maxime, Plin. 14, 3, 4, 37.—

II. Trop.

A. (Acc. to durus, II. A. 2.).

1. Act., to harden with use or labor, etc.; to make hardy or callous, to inure (class.): opere in duro membra manusque, Lucr. 5, 1359; cf.: membra animumque, Hor. S. 1, 4, 119: umeros ad vulnera, Verg. G. 3, 257: hoc se labore durant homines adolescentes, Caes. B. G. 6, 28, 3; cf.: exercitum crebris expeditionibus, patientiaque periculorum, Vell. 2, 78, 2: cor, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 6; cf. mentem, Tac. A. 3, 15 al.: ab duratis usu armorum pulsi, Liv. 7, 29; so in the part., id. 23, 18; 30, 28: durati bellis, id. 42, 52: vitia durantur, grow inveterate, Quint. 1, 1, 37.—

2. Neutr. (so most freq.), to be hardened, inured to troubles, i. e. to be patient, to wait, persevere; to endure, hold out: durare nequeo in aedibus, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 1; cf. id. Men. 5, 2, 31; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 15; Liv. 5, 2, 7; 38, 7 fin.; Quint. 11, 3, 23; Verg. A. 9, 604; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 82 al.; cf. impers., Liv. 10, 46: durate et vosmet rebus servate secundis, Verg. A. 1, 207; cf. Suet. Calig. 45; Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 91; Ov. Am. 3, 11, 27 al.: nequeo durare, quin, etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 22: durare nequeo quin intro eam, id. Mil. 4, 6, 34; Suet. Claud. 26.—

(b). With acc., to bear, endure (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): patior quemvis durare laborem, Verg. A. 8, 577: quascumque vias, Stat. S. 5, 2, 153; and of inanimate subjects: sine funibus Vix durare carinae Possunt imperiosius Aequor, Hor. C. 1, 14, 7; cf.: (vitis genus) quod siccitatem durat et ventos, Pall. Febr. 9, 1.—

(g). With inf.: non quis parumper durare opperier, Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 5.—

b. In gen., to hold out, to continue in existence, to last, remain (very freq.): Ar. Ubi illaec (talenta) quae dedi ante? Cl. Abusa. Num si ea durarent mihi, etc., Plaut. As. 1, 3, 44: uti quam diutissime durent oleae, Cato R. R. 58; 104; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 3: omnem durare per aevom, Lucr. 3, 605; cf. id. 3, 812; Verg. G. 2, 100; Suet. Calig. 6 al.: neque post mortem durare videtur (corpus), Lucr. 3, 339; cf. ib. 561: ad posteros virtus durabit, Quint. 3, 1, 21; cf. id. 1, 11, 18; 3, 1, 9; 5, 11, 41: maneat quaeso duretque gentibus, si non amor nostri, at certe odium sui, Tac. G. 33: durante originis vi, id. Agr. 11; cf. Petr. 96, 3: durante bello, Tac. A. 14, 39; so with adhuc, Suet. Gramm. 24; cf.: munera, quibus donatus est, durant, ostendunturque adhuc Bais, are still in existence, id. Tib. 6 et saep.—With inf.: ut vivere durent, Luc. 4, 519; so Sil. 10, 653; 11, 75; Petr. 41, 2.—In Tacitus sometimes of persons, for vivere, to live: narratum ab iis, qui nostram ad juventam duraverunt, Tac. A. 3, 16; id. Or. 17; id. Agr. 44. And once in the same author (acc. to the better reading) of extension in space: durant colles (= continuantur, ultra porriguntur; French, s'y prolongent), extend continuously to the frontier, Germ. 30.—

B. (Acc. to durus, II. B.)

1. Act., to render hard, callous, insensible; to dull, to blunt (rare and perh. not ante-Aug.): aerea dehinc ferro (Juppiter) duravit saecula, Hor. Epod. 16, 65: ad plagas durari, Quint. 1, 3, 14 (cf. 12: quae in pravam induruerunt): ad omne facinus durato, Tac. H. 4, 59.—Of the affections, Vulg. Job, 39, 16.—Pass.: linguae vitia, inemendabili in posterum pravitate durantur, to become confirmed, incurable, Quint. 1, 1, 37.—

2. Neutr., to be hard, stern, callous, insensible (rare and not ante-Aug.): ut non durat (pater) ultra poenam abdicationis, Quint. 9, 2, 88: in nullius umquam suorum necem duravit, Tac. A. 1, 6; Petr. 105 fin.; cf.: usque ad caedem ejus duratura filii odia, Tac. A. 14, 1 fin.