tardo: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>tardo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. id..<br /><b>I</b> Act., to [[make]] [[slow]], to [[hinder]], [[delay]], [[retard]], [[impede]], [[prevent]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn.: [[remoror]], [[impedio]]): aut impedire profectionem aut [[certe]] tardare, Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 1: cursum, id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: [[pedes]] (alta [[harena]]), Ov. H. 10, 20: [[alas]], Hor. C. 2, 17, 25: at non tardatus casu [[neque]] [[territus]] [[heros]], Verg. A. 5, 453: tardante sagittā Interdum genua impediunt, id. ib. 12, 746: nos Etesiae vehementissime tardarunt, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4: celeritatem insequendi, Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: [[palus]] Romanos ad insequendum tardabat, Caes. B. G. 7, 26: quas non [[altitudo]] montis tardare potuisset, id. ib. 7, 52; 3, 70; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 130: tormentorum administrationem, Caes. B. C. 2, 2: impetum hostium, id. B. G. 2, 25: impetum, id. ib. 7, 46; id. B. C. 1, 27: studia alicujus, Cic. Or. 1, 3: illum in persequendi [[studio]] [[maeror]], hos [[laetitia]] tardavit, id. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22: aliquem [[socors]] ipsius [[natura]], id. Brut. 68, 239: [[vereor]], ne [[exercitus]] nostri tardentur animis, id. Phil. 11, 10, 24: me [[ratio]] pudoris a praesentis laude tardaret, id. Caecin. 27, 77.—With inf.: [[propius]] adire tardari, Caes. B. C. 2, 43.—<br /><b>II</b> Neutr., to [[tarry]], [[loiter]], [[linger]], [[delay]] ([[very]] [[rare]]; syn.: [[cunctor]], [[moror]]): tu mitte mihi [[quaeso]] [[obviam]] litteras, [[numquid]] putes rei publicae nomine tardandum esse nobis, Cic. Att. 6, 7, 2: fuci tardantes, Plin. 11, 11, 11, § 27: [[mors]] non tardat, Vulg. Ecclus. 14, 12; id. Exod. 22, 29; id. Heb. 10, 37.