Obtendo, obtendis, obtendi, obtensum & obtentum, obtendere. Suet. Plin. To couer ouer: to draw before a thing: to lay an ercuse: to pretend.Huic par mons aduersis Antilibanus obtenditur. Plin. An other mountaine called Antilibanus, as bigge as that lieth in length ouer right against this.Multis simulationum inuolucris tegitur, & quasi velis quibusdam obtenditur vniuscuiusque natura.Cic.Euerie mans heart is hidde with many clokes of dissimulation, and is couered, as it were with curteines drawne before.Rationem turpirudini obtendere.Plin. iun.To cloke dishonestie with some colourable excuse or reason.Hi sunt qui suæ imbecillitatis sanitatis appellationem, quæ est maximè contraria, obtendunt. Quint. It is they which colour and hide their weakenesse with the name of.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-tendo, di, tum, 3, v. a.I.To draw, stretch, spread, or place before (cf. obtego; not freq. till after the Aug. per.). A.Lit.1. Proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanes, Verg. A. 10, 82: sudarium ante faciem, Suet. Ner. 48.—Poet.: obtentā nocte, i. e.
in dark night
, Verg. G. 1, 248.— 2.Pass., with mid. force: oculis membrana obtenditur,
spreads over
, Plin. 11, 37, 55, 153: Britannia Germaniae obtenditur,
lies over against Germany
, Tac. Agr. 10.—B.Trop., to pretend, allege, plead as an excuse: matris preces obtendens, Tac. A. 3, 17: ad ea Drusus cum arbitrium senatūs obtenderet, id. ib. 1, 26: valetudinem corporis, aetatem liberūm, nubilem filiam, id. ib. 3, 35: suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem obtendunt, Quint. 12, 10, 15: rationem turpitudini, Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 15: qui delictis suis excusationem carnis obtendet, Lact. 4, 24, 10: quid poterimus obtendere,
plead what excuse
, Vulg. Gen. 44, 16.—II.Transf., to cover, hide, conceal.A.Lit.: obtendunt limina silvis, Stat. Th. 2, 248: lucem pulvere, Sil. 10, 228: diem nube atrā, Tac. H. 3, 56.—B.Trop., to hide, conceal, envelop: quasi velis quibusdam obtenditur uniuscujusque natura, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, 15.—2.To spread over, make a cover for: Vitellius curis luxum obtendebat, i. e.