tenuere

tenuere is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 73 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 1.12: Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni,

Lucan, Civil War 4.172: Deprensum est civile nefas! Tenuere parumper

All forms of teneo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.