teneo

The closing words telling of the inscription upon an ancient cross, _teneo et tenior_, will long abide as an inspiration and help with those who heard.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 08, August, 1889 Various

_Me tenet_ in the present passage should perhaps be translated 'holds my attention' (_OLD teneo_ 22) rather than 'attracts' (Wheeler).

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

'Quaecumque a celeberrimis viris facunde dicta teneo, ne ad quemquam privatim pertineant, populo dedicabo.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_ 4, 'Memoria teneo solitum ipsum [Agricolam] narrare se prima in iuventa studium philosophiae acrius, ultra quam concessum Romano ac senatori, hausisse, ni prudentia matris incensum ac flagrantem animum coercuisset.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

_Tenuto_ -- (from _teneo_, to hold) -- a direction signifying that the tones are to be prolonged to the full value indicated by the notes.

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

Manifestum hunc optorto collo teneo furem flagiti XV (IX)

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Pro di immortales, nunc ego teneo, nunc scio quid hoc sit negoti. meus sodalis Philocrates in libertate est ad patrem in patria. bene est, nec quisquam est mihi, aeque melius cui velim.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Immo ego hunc, Thebani cives, qui domi uxorem meam XVI (X) impudicitia impedivit, teneo, thensaurum stupri

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Quicquid in illorum legitur libris, qui divino Spiritu afflati, toti orbi a Deo Christo dati sunt doctores, indubitanter teneo; hoc ad salutem animae meae sufficere credens, quod sacratissimae evangelicae veritatis pandit historia, quod apostolica in suis epistolis confirmat auctoritas, quod eximii Sacrae

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Quintin is said of quin, that be five, and of teneo, tenes, that is to hold, and is as much to say as holding five things.

The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900