To make to tarie: to stop: to bold that on go not. In via aliquem retardare. Cic. To stay on or make him taris on the way. Flumina obiecta retardant equos. Vir. Boues fortiter retinere, ac retardare, ne &c. Colu. Greatlis to stay the oren, and make them go verie softly. Incitari & Retardari, contraria. Ci. To be stirred forwarde, and to be stayed from going. Retardare animum alicuius. Ci. Celeritatem retardare. Cic. To stay ones great haste. Impedire ac retardare impetum. Cic. To let or staye the violence. Iter retardare. Ouid. To stay or hinder, &c. Loquacitatem retardare, Cicer. To make one not so buse in talking or babbling. Menses retardare mulierum. Plin. To stop womens termes or naturall purgaion.

I. Act., to keep back, hinder, delay, detain, impede, retard (class.; a favorite word with Cic., esp. in the trop. signif.; syn. moror).

A. Lit.: quarum (stellarum vagarum) motus tum incitantur, tum retardantur, saepe etiam insistunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103: aliquem in viā, id. Phil. 10, 5, 11: itinere devio per ignorantiam locorum retardati, Suet. Galb. 20: flumina retardant equos, Verg. G. 3, 253: boves retinere ac retardare, Col. 2, 2, 26: instantia ora retardat Cuspide praetentā, Ov. M. 3, 82: te metuunt nuper Virgines nuptae, tua ne retardet Aura maritos, Hor. C. 2, 8, 23: inundationibus Tiberis retardatus, Suet. Oth. 8: mulierum mensibus retardatis, Plin. 21, 21, 89, 156. — Absol.: eae res, quae ceteros remorari solent, non retardarunt, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 40; Suet. Caes. 34.—

B. Trop.: impetus hostium repressos esse intellegunt ac retardatos, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 5, 13: impetum, Auct. B. Afr. 68: illius animos atque impetus, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 33: celeritatem persequendi, id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: loquacitatem, id. Vatin. 1, 2: animos testium, id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, 17: consuetudinem, id. Sest. 31, 67: auxilium, id. Pis. 31, 77: aliquem a scribendo, id. Fam. 5, 17, 1; cf.: aliquem ab alicujus tempore aut commodo, id. Arch. 6. 12; Suet. Caes. 59: Tigranem Asiae minitantem, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 45: ergo non aetas quemquam, non valetudo, non sexus retardavit, quominus, etc., Plin. Pan. 22, 2: mea te fortuna retardat, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 21: incepta, Sil. 1, 478: invidia retardat sceptra, id. 11, 609.— Absol.: ad quem (agrum) fruendum non modo non retardat, verum etiam invitat atque allectat senectus, Cic. Sen. 16, 57.—

II. Neutr., to tarry, remain behind, delay: in quo cursu (stella Saturni) multa mirabiliter efficiens, tum antecedendo, tum retardando, tum, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52.