• CONTINENT

1. s. continens terra; but more commonly continens, fem. only (Ablative, e and i equally common, Freund). On the continent, in continenti (Nep.): to send ambassadors to the continent, in continentem legatos mittere (Caes.): to be brought to him on the continent, in continentem adduci: to reach the continent, ad continentem pervenire: to fetch from the continent, ex continenti comportare (things); ex continenti arcessire (persons; e.g., fabros, Caes.): to leave anybody on the continent, aliquem in continente relinquere (Caes., B.G., 5, 8): to spend the winter on the continent, in continenti hiemem agere (ibid., 22). [Politian is wrong in using it as masculine; uterque continens: adversus continens. Krebs.]

2. adj. continens (in aliqua re): abstinens [SYN. in CONTINENCE]: castus continensque: abstinens rebus venereis (Col.): to lead a continent life, continenter vivere (Cic.); rebus venereis non uti (after Cic.); rebus venereis abstinere, Col.