tenor

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.