tenus

1.

tĕnus, ŏris, n. [root ten-; Gr. teinô; v. teneo], = tenos, a cord, snare, gin, springe:

intendere tenus,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 23; cf.:

tenus est laqueus, dictus a tendiculā,

Non. 6, 12:

tenus est proprie extrema pars arcūs,

Serv. Verg. A. 6, 62.

2.

tĕnus [root ten; v. teneo], perh. orig., an acc. of direction, and hence joined with gen.; afterwards a prep. with abl. (its supposed construction with the acc. rests upon a false reading in the passages, Ov. H. 12, 27; Val. Fl. 1, 537; Suet. Caes. 52, where the abl. is the true reading), prop. lengthwise, to the end; hence, as far as, up or down to, unto, to (placed after its case; mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cæs.).

I.

In gen. ( a ) With gen. plur. (so not in the prose of Cicero):

labrorum tenus,

along the lips, Lucr. 1, 940; 4, 15:

lumborum tenus,

as far as the loins, Cic. Arat. 83 (324):

crurum tenus,

Verg. G. 3, 53:

laterum tenus,

id. A. 10, 210:

per aquam ferme genūs tenus altam,

Liv. 44, 40, 8: aurium tenus, * Quint. 12, 2, 17: illi rumores Cumarum tenus caluerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 2:

urbium Corcyrae tenus,

Liv. 26, 24, 11.—

(β).

With abl. (so most freq. in prose and poetry):

Tauro tenus,

Cic. Deiot. 13, 36; Nep. Con. 2, 3:

Arimino tenus,

Suet. Aug. 30:

Antio tenus,

id. Tib. 38:

Ostiā tenus,

id. Ner. 16:

Aethiopiā tenus,

id. Caes. 52:

erat pectoribus tenus,

Liv. 21, 54, 9:

inguinibus tenus,

Cels. 1, 3:

pube tenus,

Verg. A. 3, 427:

summo tenus ore,

id. ib. 1, 737:

collo tenus,

Ov. M. 2, 275:

pectoribus tenus,

id. ib. 15, 512;

15, 673: poplite deinde tenus,

id. ib. 5, 593:

pennis tenus,

id. ib. 6, 258:

mediā tenus alvo,

id. F. 2, 145:

lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem,

Verg. A. 2, 553:

poti faece tenus cadi,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 16:

tres regiones solo tenus dejectae,

Tac. A. 15, 40 fin.:

tectis tenus,

id. ib. 13, 41:

extollere caelo tenus,

Just. 12, 6, 2.—Of time:

Cantabrico tenus bello nec ultra,

Suet. Aug. 85; cf.:

volneribus tenus, of the fighting of gladiators,

Liv. 41, 20, 12 et saep.—So the compounds, eātenus, hactenus, quātenus, quādantenus, v. h. vv.—

II.

In partic.

A.

After, according to, by:

tertium et quartum consulatum titulo tenus gessit,

Suet. Caes. 76; so,

titulo tenus,

id. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 1, 31:

facie tenus,

i. e. for the sake of appearances, App. M. 10, p. 250, 9:

specie tenus,

Amm. 14, 7, 5:

terrore tenus,

id. 16, 8, 3.—

B.

Verbo tenus, less freq. nomine tenus, as far as the meaning of the word extends, in name, nominally (very rare):

veteres verbo tenus... de re publicā disserebant,

Cic. Leg. 3, 6, 14; Liv. 34, 5, 4:

haec verba cum affectu accipimus, non verbo tenus,

Dig. 2, 2, 1 med.:

usurpatas nomine tenus urbium expugnationes dictitans,

Tac. A. 15, 6 fin.