tenuare

Updated: May 19, 2025

Nap had twice put executions in his principal residence, and had refused to discharge the latter of the two till he had extorted a bond from his Lordship which compelled him to comply. "Referre sermones Deorum et Magna modis tenuare parvis." Horace.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1