παρατείνω,
future -τενῶ[[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]: perfect -τέτᾰκα[[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.832f ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—stretch out along, beside, or near, χεῖρες παρατεταμέναι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 13; βραχίων παρὰ τὰς πλευρὰς παρατεταμένος [prev. author] “Art.” 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; extend, deploy, τὴν φάλαγγα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.48; π. ἔλυτρον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.185; παρετέτατο ἡ τάφρος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: —passive, extend along (see. below [[ 11.1)] Refs]; to be stretched at length, laid low, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 213. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2. stretch on the rack, torture, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.135d: _metaphorically_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be tortured, λιμῷ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 207b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be worn out, with participle, παρετάθη μακρὰν σδὸν πορευθείς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρατέταμαι λιπαρὰ κάπτων I am nigh dead with eating dainties, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 506.1; γελῶντες.. ὀλίγου παρετάθησαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 303b; παραταθήσεται ὑπὸ σοῦ.. θαμὰ λέγοντος [prev. author] “Ly.” 204c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but πολιορκίᾳ παρατενεῖσθαι ἐς τοὔσχατον will strain themselves to the uttermost, hold out to the last, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.46. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3. prolong, protract, τοὺς λόγους [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1455b2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μῦθον[[ [prev. work] 1451b38; ἐπὶ πλεῖον τὴν διάσκεψιν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 29, compare “DMort.” 4.2; τὴν ἀκρόασιν [prev. author] “Im.” 13 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ [prev. author] “Am.” 4, etc.; ἐνεστῶτος τοῦ παρατεινομένου 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 253.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]