tĕnor — Lewis & Short
tĕnor, ōris, m.teneo, II. B.,
I 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.