hold out Copy link Outline I. To presentII. To endure1. sustĭneo, 22. perfĕro, 3, irr. (usu. with an acc.)3. rĕsisto, 34. dūro, 1 (to last out)5. obdūro, 1 (to persist) • hold out: I. To present: v. to hold forth. II. To endure: 1. sustĭneo, 2: they (the besieged) could no longer h. out, sese diutius s. non posse, Caes. B. G. 2, 6, extr.: Cic. Fam. 12, 6, extr.: oftener an acc., such as vim hostium, impetum, is added: v. to withstand. Simly. frequent., sustento, 1 (implying frequent attacks): had they not been relieved, they could not have held out any longer, nec nisi subventum foret, ultra sustentaturi fuerint, Liv. 34, 18. 2. perfĕro, 3, irr. (usu. with an acc.): v. to endure. 3. rĕsisto, 3: v. to resist. 4. dūro, 1 (to last out): v. to endure. 5. obdūro, 1 (to persist): Join: perferre et obdurare, Ov. Tr. 5, 11, 7: Cic.
HOLD OUT Copy link • HOLD OUT(anything), Extend, praebere: porrigere (e.g., cavam manum, of a beggar): ostentare (to exhibit; e.g., cavam manum): offerre (e.g., jugulum, one’s throat to be cut). To hold out one’s hand (to be caned), manum praebere verberibus (†). Propose, offer (e.g., hopes, reward), proponere (e.g., praemium, poenam, etc.). INTRANS., To hold out under or against anything; or absolutely, (a) = endure, ferre: perferre: tolerare (to bear with vigor and strength): sustinere: sustentare (to support one’s self under anything): excipere (as it were to accept, not to yield to anything): perpeti (to endure throughout, to the end): durare: perdurare (to last out, by exertion): perstare: perseverare (to hold out in a course of action): permanere (to hold out in a place): to hold out (against an attack of the enemy), hostium impetum sustinere, excipere: not to be able to hold out against the enemy, hostes or hostium impetum sustinere non posse: to hold out (of persons besieged), urbem retinere defendereque: the sailors could not hold out against the fury of the storm, nautae vim tempestatis subsistere non poterant: to hold out till night (of besieged persons), sustinere oppugnationem ad noctem. To last, Vid: HOLD UP, TRANS., Raise, tollere: attollere: levare: sublevare: allevare (to help up, assist, to support). To hold up the eyelid, palpebram manu levare; one’s hands, manus tollere; to heaven, tendere maims (supplices) ad caelum: to hold up one’s dress, vestem colligere: to hold up anybody (who is falling), labentem excipere: holding each other up, sublevantes invicem (Liv.). To hold up its head, extollere caput: se erigere (both figuratively, Cic., Planc., 13, 33). INTRANS., To continue fair. If the weather holds up, si erit sudum (Cic.); *si serenitas erit.