stretch out/forth, extend, distend; hold out; prolong, lengthen
Latin word, found 32 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Aeneid 5.377: brachia protendens, et verberat ictibus auras.
Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.127: unde aciem in pelagi vastos protenderet aestus,
Tacitus, Annales 1·300: … s. hi molium obiectus, hi proximas scaphas scandere; alii quantum corpus sinebat vadere in mare; quidam manus protendere; questibus, votis, clamore diversa rogitantium aut incerta respondentium omnis ora compleri; adfluere ingens …
All forms of protendo