Tenus, Præpositio, Ablatiuo deseruit, sernper que in singulari postponitur ablatiuo: vt Hctenus, eátenus, quátenus, verbo tenus, ore tenus, capulo tenus. Virg.Nigh, or vp to.Cauda tenus.Cic.Collo tenus supereminet omnes.Ouid.She is higher thã al other by the necke.Credito tenus. Paul. Euen to the summe that is due.Ianua ac limine tenus domum claudit. Tac. Muro tenus. Paul. Euen to the wall.Modò pectore, modò ore tenus extantes. Tac. Porta tenus. Tac. Euen to the gate.Solo tenus. Col. Talo tenus vestigia tingit.Ouid.Vp to the ankles.Antiochus Scipione deuictus Tauro tenus regnare iussus est.Cic.To the mountaine Taurus and no further.Titulo tenus fungi genere aliquo militiæ. Suet. To be in any kind of warfare by name and title only, & not in effect.Verbo tenus.Cic.In worde onely.Viuo tenus. Col. To the quicke.Vmbilico tenus.Liu.Vp to the nausll. In plurali ponitur cum genitiuo, & etiam cum ablatiuo.Virg. Crurum tenus mento palearia pendent. Downe to the legges.Demittere se inguinibus tenus in aquam calidam. Col. Vp to the graines.Labrorum tenus. Lucr. Euen to the lippes.Est quodam prodire tenus, si non datur vltra. Horat. A man may come to a certaine degree, though hee can attaine no further.
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tĕnor, ōris, m. [teneo, II. B.], a holding on, holding fast; hence, an uninterrupted course, career, tenor (mostly post-Aug.; cf.: cursus, ordo). I. In gen.: hasta fugit servatque cruenta tenorem, keeps its course, Verg. A. 10, 340: (aulaea) placido educta tenore Tota patent,
by a steady motion
, Ov. M. 3, 113: hic tibi versandus tenor est, id. A. A. 2, 729: interrumpere tenorem rerum, Liv. 41, 15, 7: pugnae, id. 8, 38, 11: tenorem pugnae servabant, id. 30, 18: tenor vitae, Ov. H. 17, 14; Liv. 40, 12, 7: fati, Ov. H. 7, 112: eundem tenorem servare, Col. Arb. 2, 2: unus tenor algoris aestūsve, Plin. 14, 2, 4, 27: eodem tenore duo insequentes consulatus gessi, Liv. 7, 40, 9; cf.: eodem consiliorum tenore, id. 22, 15, 1: uno et perpetuo tenore juris semper usurpato, numquam intermisso, id. 35, 16; austeritatis (in smaragdis), Plin. 37, 5, 18, 67: tenorem in narrationibus servant,
connection
, Quint. 10, 7, 6: cum quantum, quale interrogantes gravi, comparantes acuto tenore concludunt, i. e.
tone
,
accent
, id. 1, 5, 26; cf. in plur.: adhuc difficilior observatio est per tenores vel accentus, id. 1, 5, 22; cf. 26: vel heroos gressu truncare tenores, i. e.
mingle pentameters with heroic verses
, Stat. S. 5, 3, 99.—B. Adverb.: uno tenore, in one course or direction, uninterruptedly, uniformly: isque (stilus medius) uno tenore, ut aiunt, in dicendo fluit, Cic. Or. 6, 21: brevis profecto res est, si uno tenore peragitur, Liv. 5, 5, 7: uno tenore fidem colere, id. 22, 37, 10: tenore uno in mediam aciem illati, id. 22, 47, 6; cf.: hi mores eaque caritas patriae per omnes ordines velut tenore uno pertinebat, id. 23, 49, 3: so, uno velut tenore, id. 2, 42, 8.—II. In partic., in the later jurid. lang., the connection, contents, sense, tenor of a law: pro tenore legis Aquiliae, Dig. 9, 2, 56: pro tenore S C Claudiani, Paul. Sent. 2, 21, 18: auctorum verba emendare tenore sententiae perseverante, non est prohibitum, Dig. 42, 1, 46.