protendo

prō-tendo, di, sum and tum, 3, v. a., to stretch forth or out, to extend (not in Cic.; syn. porrigo).

I.

Lit.:

hastas,

Verg. A. 11, 606 Wagn.:

bracchia in mare,

Ov. M. 14, 191:

supinas manus ad genua alicujus,

Petr. 17 fin.:

aciem (oculorum) in aestus pelagi,

Cat. 64, 127:

cervicem fortiter,

Tac. A. 15, 67:

cochleae bina ceu cornua protendentes contrahentesque,

Plin. 9, 32, 51, § 101:

protentis hastis,

Tac. A. 14, 37:

pedes temo protentus in octo,

Verg. G. 1, 171:

consanguineam protendere dextram,

Sil. 1, 655:

praerupta protendit juga Cithaeron,

Sen. Phoen. 12.—Mid., to stretch forth or out, to extend:

inter digitos medius longissime protenditur,

projects, Plin. 11, 43, 99, § 244:

protenditur ad Bactros usque gens Mardorum,

reaches, extends, id. 6, 16, 18, § 47: anus haec in pellis periculum protenditur, is swelled out, distended with drink, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Schol. Hor. S. 1, 6, 22.—Of a river:

usque ad colla cornipedum protentus,

swollen, Sil. 16, 387.—

II.

Trop., to make long, to prolong, lengthen, extend (post-class.):

utramvis partem in plura verba protendere,

App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 267 Oud.:

praepositiones producere atque protendere,

to prolong in pronunciation, Gell. 2, 17, 1; 6:

barbare protendere,

id. 4, 17, 7.—Hence, prōtentus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, lengthened, extended (post-class.):

Phocis lucis in exortum protentior,

extending farther, Avien. Perieg. 597:

protentior vita,

Sol. 30.