refuse (to undertake/undergo), decline, reject, evade, recoil from
Latin word, found 52 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.14.9: Praeterea oppida incendi oportere, quae non munitione et loci natura ab omni sint periculo tuta, neu suis sint ad detractandam militiam receptacula neu Romanis proposita ad copiam commeatus praedamque tollendam.
Vergil, Georgics 3.57: aut iuga detractans interdumque aspera cornu
Ovid, Amores 1.2.14: Detractant prensi dum iuga prima boves.
All forms of detracto