ἐντείνω,
stretch or strain tight, especially of any operation performed with straps or cords,
__1 ἐνέτεινε τὸν θρόνον [ἱμᾶσι] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.25 (compare ἐντανύω)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—more frequently (as always in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]passive, δίφρος.. ἱμᾶσιν ἐντέταται is hung on tight-stretched straps. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.728 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [κυνέη] ἔντοσθεν ἱμᾶσιν ἐντέτατο στερεῶς was strongly lined inside with tight-stretched straps, [[ 10.263 ] Refs]; so [τὰς γεφύρας] ἐδόκεον ἐντεταμένας εὑρήσειν] expected to find the bridge with the mooring-cables taut, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.106; σχεδίαι ἐντετ. [prev. author] 8.117; κλίνη ἐντετ. 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 7.14.1; εἰ ἡ ἔντασις τῶν ῥάβδων χρηστῶς ἐνταθείη 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τράχηλος ἐντετ. with sinews taut, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.5 ] Refs 1st c.BC+] W.: metaphorically, ἐντεταμένου τοῦ σώματος being toned, tempered, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 86b, compare 92a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 stretch a bow tight, bend it for shooting, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 83, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 886: _metaphorically_, καιροῦ πέρα τὸ τόξον ἐ. [prev. work] 745 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, bend one's bow, [[ [prev. author] “IA” 549 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.3:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, τόξα ἐντεταμένα bows ready strung, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Scyth.” 2: hence, com., κέντρον ἐντέταται ] Refs 5th c.BC+]is ready for action, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 407. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]