To extend: to stretch out: to lay a snare: to goe: to go forwarde: to go on: to endeuor: to profer: to reach: to prepare: to lifte vp: to pretend: to pitch pauilions: to assay: to hold vp. Arcas tendere. Vir. To bend howes. Oculos pariter, telumqúe tetÊdit. Vir. He directed both hys eye and his dart. Grauitas tendebat vterum mihi. Oui. The being with child made my belly to swel. Rete accipitri tenditur. Ter. An net is pitched to take an hawke. Casses mihi tenduntur. Tibul. Hayes or nettes are layde to take me. Dolos tendere alicui. Hor. Insidias tendere alicui. Salust. To lie in waite to hurt one: to lay waite to deceiue one. Plagas tendere. Cic. To pitch hayes or nets. Retia tendere ceruis. Ouid. Vincula tendere capto. Vir. Manibus tendit diuellere nodos. Virg. He assayeth with his hands to vndoe the knots. Tendere ad altiora. Liu. To assaye to climbe higher. Paulatim ad. maiora tendere incipiet. Quin. He shal beginne to go forward by little and litle to greater matters. Ad eloquium tendere. Ouid. Ad summam tendere. Quint. Tendere ad Consulatum. Liu. To endeuour or labour to bee Consul. Tendere aduersus. Liu. To repugne. Tendere aduersus authoritatem Senatus, nefas est. Liu. To goe aboute to do a thing against the authoritie of the Senate. Vltra tendere. Liu. To indeuour to go further, or to do more. Contra tendere. Tac. To withstand: to resist: to repugne. Tendunt in diuersum sententiæ. Liu. Their sentences repugne, or be contrarie one to another. Tendere pertinaciter. Liu. Vasto certamine tendunt. Virg. Vlterius ne tende odijs. Vir. See thy hatred go no further. Tendebant summa ope, vt Consules crearentur. Liu. They indeuored or laboured with al diligenlce, or to the vttermost that they could, &c. Tendere. Cic. To go on: to go forward. Postquam tendere ad se Romanas naues vidit. Liu. After he saw the Romaine nauie to make toward him. Cursu tendit ad limina. Virg. He ran strait to the dore. Ad mortem tendere. Lucan. Ad reliqua acri tendebamus animo. Ci. With fierce courage we went toward the rest. Tendimus in Latium. Vir. In campum tendit. Vir. In verticem tendere. Quint. Tendit ad stomachum, vel in ventrem. Plin. It stretcheth euen to the stomacke. Deus animum per totum tetendit. Cic. God hath spred the soule throughout the bodie. Ne tot fortissimos viros interelusos opprimeret hostis, tendunt in quencunque casum. Liu. The put themselues to al aduentnres that, &c. Tendit palmes sursum. Col. The branch groweth vpwarde. Tendere cursum aliquò Li. To run strait toward a place. Gressum tendit ad mœnia. Vir. He goeth toward the wals. Iter tendebat ad naues. Vir. He went, or toke his way toward the ships. Tendere iter pennis. Vir. To flie. Paruum pari tÊdebat Iulum. Vir. She held vy yong Iulus to his father. Porrigere & tendere. Cic. Brachia tendere. Ouid. Lumina tendens ad cælum. Virg. Casting vp his eyes to heanen. Manus supplices ad cælum tendere. Cæsar. To lifte vp his hands to heauen in his prayer. Tendere manus supplices alicui, & ad aliquem. Cæs. Tendere alicui metum aut spem. Cic. To offer one hope or feare: to put him in hope or feare. Eò tendit, id. agit. ad eum exitum properat vir optimus, vt sit ill Octauius propitius. Ci. This he purposeth, thys he goeth about, &c. In diuersum disciplinæ tendunt. Quintil. Their doctrines be contrarie. Tendere. Val. Max. To pitch tents or pauilions. Hîc sæuus tendebat Achilles. Virg.

I. Act., to stretch, stretch out, distend, extend, etc. (class.; cf.: extendo, explico).

A. Lit.

1. In gen.: suntne igitur insidiae, tendere plagas? Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68: plagam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.: quia non rete accipitri tennitur, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 16 sq.; cf.: retia (alicui), Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 20; Hor. Epod. 2, 33; Ov. M. 4, 513; 7, 701; 8, 331 al.: casses alicui, Tib. 1, 6, 5: intumescit collum, nervi tenduntur, Col. 6, 14, 4: chordam, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 55: arcum, to bend, Verg. A. 7, 164; Hor. C. 2, 10, 20; Ov. M. 2, 604; 5, 55; 5, 63; Stat. S. 3, 1, 51.—Hence, poet. transf.: sagittas Arcu, to shoot, hurl, Hor. C. 1, 29, 9; cf.: spicula cornu, Verg. A. 9, 606: pariterque oculos telumque, id. ib. 5, 508: barbiton, to tune, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; cf.: tympana tenta tonant palmis, Lucr. 2, 618: validā lora manu, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 72: vela (Noti), to swell, Verg. A. 3, 268: praecipiti carbasa tenta Noto, Ov. H. 10, 30: praetorium, to stretch out, pitch, Caes. B. C. 3, 82: pelles in ordine tentae, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 30: conopia, Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 45: grabatos restibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 181, 29: cubilia, Hor. Epod. 12, 12: manus ad caeli caerula templa, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 51 Vahl.); so, manus ad caelum, Caes. B. C. 2, 5; Verg. A. 3, 176: bracchia ad caelum, Ov. M. 6, 279; 9, 293; for which: bracchia caelo, id. ib. 2, 580; 9, 210: ad legatos atque exercitum supplices manus tendunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 12; so, manus ad aliquem, id. B. G. 2, 13: ad sidera palmas, Verg. A. 1, 93: super aequora palmas, Ov. M. 8, 849: ad aliquem orantia bracchia, id. P. 2, 9, 65: manus supplices dis immortalibus, Cic. Font. 17, 48; cf.: vobis supplex manus tendit patria communis, id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; so, manus alicui, Caes. B. G. 7, 48; Ov. M. 3, 723; id. H. 10, 146: manus supinas, Liv. 3, 50, 5: manus ripae ulterioris amore, Verg. A. 6, 314; cf. also: Graecia tendit dexteram Italiae, stretches forth, reaches, Cic. Phil. 10, 4, 9; id. Prov. Cons. 4, 9: (conjux) parvum patri tendebat Iulum, reaches out, Verg. A. 2, 674: tu munera supplex Tende, petens pacem, id. G. 4, 535: quo tendant ferrum, aim, direct, id. A. 5, 489: qua nunc se ponti plaga caerula tendit, stretches itself out, extends, Lucr. 5, 481. —

2. In partic.: nervum tendere, in mal. part., Auct. Priap. 70; cf. Mart. 11, 60, 3.—Hence, tentus, a lecherous man, Mart. 11, 73, 3; Auct. Priap. 20; 27; 34 al.; and tenta, ōrum, n., = membrum virile, Cat. 80, 6.—

B. Trop.: insidiae tenduntur alicui, are spread out, laid (qs. like nets), Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46: insidias alicui, Sall. C. 27, 2; Suet. Caes. 35: omnes insidias animis, Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47: animum vigilem, to strain, exert, Stat. Achill. 1, 543: longo tendit praecordia voto, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Ol. 66; cf.: sunt quibus in Satirā videor nimis acer et ultra Legem tendere opus, i. e. to heighten, aggravate, Hor. S. 2, 1, 2: aestivam sermone benigno noctem, to protract, extend, id. Ep. 1, 5, 11: (lunam) Tanto posse minus cum Signis tendere cursum, to direct, Lucr. 5, 631: cursum ex acie in Capitolia, Sil. 9, 216: cursum ad agmina suorum, id. 10, 73: iter ad naves, Verg. A. 1, 656: iter pennis, id. ib. 6, 240: ad dominum iter, Ov. M. 2, 547: cursum unde et quo, Liv. 23, 34, 5: iter in Hispaniam, Auct. B. Afr. 95: cunctis civibus lucem ingenii et consilii sui porrigens atque tendens, tendering, offering, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184.—

II. Neutr.

A. To direct one's self or one's course; to aim, strive, go, travel, march, tend, bend one's course in any direction (class.).

1. Lit.: dubito an Venusiam tendam, Cic. Att. 16, 5, 3: Beneventum, Hor. S. 1, 5, 71: cursuque amens ad limina tendit, Verg. A. 2, 321: ad castra, Liv. 9, 37: in castra, id. 10, 36: ad aedes, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 89: ad domum Bruti et Cassii, Suet. Caes. 85: ad portus, Ov. M. 15, 690: Ciconum ad oras, id. ib. 10, 3: ad metam, id. ib. 15, 453; cf.: cum alter ad alterum tenderemus, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 9: unde venis? et Quo tendis? Hor. S. 1, 9, 63; id. Ep. 1, 15, 11; id. C. 3, 3, 70: quo tendere pergunt, Verg. A. 6, 198; Nep. Milt. 1, 6: tendimus huc (sc. in Orcum) omnes, Ov. M. 10, 34 et saep. —

b. Of things concrete or abstract, to go, proceed, extend, stretch, etc.: in quem locum quaeque (imago) tendat, Lucr. 4, 179: levibus in sublime tendentibus, Plin. 2, 5, 4, 11: sursum tendit palmes, Col. 5, 6, 28: simulacra viis derectis omnia tendunt, Lucr. 4, 609.—Poet., with acc. of direction: tunc aethera tendit, Luc. 7, 477: dextera (via), quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit, Verg. A. 6, 541: gula tendit ad stomachum, is ad ventrem, reaches, extends, Plin. 11, 37, 66, 176: Taurus mons ad occasum tendens, id. 5, 27, 27, 97; so id. 5, 5, 5, 35; 16, 30, 53, 122; cf.: Portae Caspiae, quae per Iberiam in Sarmatas tendunt, id. 6, 13, 15, 40: seu mollis quā tendit Ionia, Prop. 1, 6, 31.—

2. Trop.

a. In gen., to aim, strive, be directed or inclined, to tend in any direction: ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo, Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4; cf.: ad altiora et non concessa tendere, Liv. 4, 13, 4: ad majora, Quint. 2, 4, 20; 12, 2, 27: ad eloquium, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17: ad suum, Liv. 4, 9, 5; cf.: ad Carthaginienses, id. 24, 5, 8: cum alii alio tenderent, id. 24, 28, 1: in diversum sententiae tendebant, id. 36, 10, 7: tenes, quorsum haec tendant, quae loquor, tend, look, = spectent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 81; Hor. S. 2, 7, 21. —

(b). To exert one's self, to strive, endeavor (mostly poet.); with inf.: (Laocoon) manibus tendit divellere nodos, Verg. A. 2, 220: pasta (nitedula) rursus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 31: captae civitati leges imponere, Liv. 6, 38, 7; 24, 35; 10, 1: quod efficere tendimus, Quint. 9, 1, 21: fratresque tendentes opaco Pelion imposuisse Olympo, Hor. C. 3, 4, 51: tendit disertus haberi, id. Ep. 1, 19, 16: aqua tendit rumpere plumbum, id. ib. 1, 10, 20; Pers. 5, 139; Juv. 10, 154. — Absol.: miles tendere, inde ad jurgium, insists, persists, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 12. —

b. In partic., to exert one's self in opposition, to strive, try, endeavor, contend (class. but not freq. till the Aug. per.): nec nos obniti contra nec tendere tantum Sufficimus, Verg. A. 5, 21; cf.: nec mora nec requies; vasto certamine tendunt, id. ib. 12, 553: Petreius ubi videt Catilinam contra ac ratus erat magnā vi tendere, Sall. C. 60, 5; cf.: summā vi, Liv. 32, 32, 7 Drak.: adversus, etc., id. 34, 34, 1: contra, id. 35, 51, 6: ultra, id. 24, 31, 4: acrius, Tac. A. 2, 74; cf.: acrius contra, ut, etc., Liv. 3, 15, 2; so with ut, id. 4, 7, 8; with ne, id. 4, 8, 6: quid tendit? cum efficere non possit, ut, etc., what does he strive for? to what do his efforts tend? Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.: nihil illi tendere contra, Verg. A. 9, 377. —

B. For tentoria tendere, to set up tents, to be under tents, be encamped, to encamp: qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores, Caes. B. G. 6, 37; cf.: omnibus extra vallum jussis tendere, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 18: vallo tendetis in illo, Luc. 7, 328: hic Dolopum manus, hic saevus tendebat Achilles, Verg. A. 2, 29: legio latis tendebat in arvis, id. ib. 8, 605: isdem castris, Liv. 44, 13, 12; 27, 46; 44, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; 19; cf.: isdem hibernis tendentes, Tac. H. 1, 55: Lugduni tendentes, id. ib. 1, 59: cum multitudo laxius tenderet, Curt. 3, 8, 18; 5, 7, 6; 7, 2, 37: tendere in campis, id. 10, 7, 20. — Hence, tensus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, drawn tight, strained, tense (rare): rectissima linea tensa, Quint. 3, 6, 83: collum, id. 11, 3, 82; cf.: remissis magis quam tensis (digitis), id. 11, 3, 99: vox tensior (opp. remissior), id. 11, 3, 42: lacerti, Luc. 7, 469: rudentes, id. 2, 683: frons, Lucr. 6, 1195: tormento citharāque tensior, Auct. Priap. 6 and 70.—Sup. and adv. do not occur.