The corpus record — Latin

retento1

retento1 · v. freq. a

to hold back firmly

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Where it lives

Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rĕtento — Lewis & Short

rĕtento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.id.,

I to hold back firmly, to keep back, to hold fast (rare; not in Cic.).

I Lit.: cur me retentas? Plaut. As. 3, 3, 1; id. Rud. 3, 6, 39; cf. agmen, Liv. 10, 5: legiones, Tac. H. 4, 13: fugientes, id. ib. 5, 21: admissos equos, Ov. A. A. 2, 434; cf. frena, id. Am. 2, 9, 30: puppes, Tac. H. 2, 35; Luc. 3, 586: vires regni, id. 4, 723: pecuniam, calones, sarcinas, Tac. H. 4, 60: caelum a terris, i. e. to hold apart, Lucr. 2, 729: iste qui retentat sese tacitus, quo sit tutus, restrains himself, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—

II Trop.: iras, i. e. to suppress, Val. Fl. 3, 97.—

B Transf., to hold back from destruction, preserve, maintain: (mens divina) Quae penitus sensus hominum vitasque retentat, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 17.

2. rĕ-tento — Lewis & Short

rĕ-tento (-tempto), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to try or attempt again, to reattempt (a poet. word of the Aug. per.): timide verba intermissa retentat, Ov. M. 1, 746: preces, id. ib. 14, 382: fila lyrae, id. ib. 5, 117: referoque manus iterumque retento, id. H.10,11: viam leti, id. M. 11, 792: studium fatale, id. Tr. 5, 12, 51: arma, Luc. 2, 514: memoriam meam, Sen. Ep. 72, 1: nec audent ea retentare, quorum vitia retractando patescunt, id. Brev. Vit. 10, 2: nec vana retentet spes Minyas, move or affect again, Val. Fl. 5, 679. —With inf.: saepe retentantem totas refringere vestes, Ov. M. 9, 208.

In the wild

retentet Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.434
retentans Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p1
retemptantem Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.208
retentans Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 4.118
retempto Ovid, Epistulae 10.11
retentat Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.254

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