Tardo, tardas, tardâre. Cæs. To hinder: to make a long comming: to keepe backe: to tarrie: to be slowe.Inertia tardat nos. Tibul. Impetum immici tardare. Cæs. To let or stop, &c.Tardare & srænare. Ci. Studia alicuius tardare.Cic.To let or hinder ones studies.Animos accusatorum tardare.Cic.To stay or coole the stomackes of accusers.Animo tardari.Cic.Tardare & procra stinare negotium aliquod. Cice. To kecpe backe a matter and driue off srom day to day. Tardare, cum insinitiuo. Cæs. Nonnulli timore propius adire tardabantur. Were stayed with fare from comming any neerer. Tardare absolurum. Ci. An tardare & commorari re melius esset tibi.
Tardus, Adicct. Cic.Slow: dull: long in comming: harde witted: Thicke: grosse.Velox & Tardus contraria.Cic.Tardus incessu filius. Plin. A sonne that goeth slowly.Aetate tardus.Ouid.That goeth slowly by reason of age.Tarda ad pastum pecus.Cic.Tardus ad iniuriam.Cic.Not prompt to doe iniurie.Ad reserendam gratiam tardiorem esse.Cicer.To be more slacke to requite a good turne.Tardus in cogitando Cice. Tardum est dictu pluribus prosit, an noceat vinum. Plin. It is harde to say whether, &c. Agmen tardum.Virg.Asellus tardus.Virg. Corpora tarda. Virg.Fuga tarda.Ouid.Gradibus tardis errare.Ouid.To goe slowly.Grauiras tarda Ouid.Homo tardus Ci.One of dul vnderstanding & hard witted.Ingenium ta rdum.Cic.Tardum ingenium in accipiendis quæ traduntur. Plini. A dull wit to conreiue things taught.Tarda mens. Cice. Tardiores tibicinis modos, & cãtus remissiores facere.Cic.Moræ tardæ.Ouid.Noctes tardæ.Virg.Nights long ere they come.Opem tardam admouere Ouid.Paslu tardo incedere.Ouid.Pede tardo cunctari.Ouid.Principia orationis tarda.Cic.Prouisor tardus vrilium. Hor. Vt ea res tardior spe fuerir.Liu.How that thing came more slowly to passe than we thought.Senectus tarda, Hor.Slow olde age.Sensus heberes & tardi. Ci. Vnda rarda.Virg.Water running veric slowly. Tardus, Virg.Dull: grosse headed.Quidani nimis indociles tardiq, sont: Cicer. Tardus fumus.Virg.A grosse and thicke smoake.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tardo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.]. I.Act., to make slow, to hinder, delay, retard, impede, prevent (freq. and class.; syn.: remoror, impedio): aut impedire profectionem aut certe tardare, Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 1: cursum, id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: pedes (alta harena), Ov. H. 10, 20: alas, Hor. C. 2, 17, 25: at non tardatus casu neque territus heros, Verg. A. 5, 453: tardante sagittā Interdum genua impediunt, id. ib. 12, 746: nos Etesiae vehementissime tardarunt, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4: celeritatem insequendi, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: palus Romanos ad insequendum tardabat, Caes. B. G. 7, 26: quas non altitudo montis tardare potuisset, id. ib. 7, 52; 3, 70; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, 130: tormentorum administrationem, Caes. B. C. 2, 2: impetum hostium, id. B. G. 2, 25: impetum, id. ib. 7, 46; id. B. C. 1, 27: studia alicujus, Cic. Or. 1, 3: illum in persequendi studio maeror, hos laetitia tardavit, id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: aliquem socors ipsius natura, id. Brut. 68, 239: vereor, ne exercitus nostri tardentur animis, id. Phil. 11, 10, 24: me ratio pudoris a praesentis laude tardaret, id. Caecin. 27, 77.—With inf.: propius adire tardari, Caes. B. C. 2, 43.—II.Neutr., to tarry, loiter, linger, delay (very rare; syn.: cunctor, moror): tu mitte mihi quaeso obviam litteras, numquid putes rei publicae nomine tardandum esse nobis, Cic. Att. 6, 7, 2: fuci tardantes, Plin. 11, 11, 11, 27: mors non tardat, Vulg. Ecclus. 14, 12; id. Exod. 22, 29; id. Heb. 10, 37.