“continue” in Latin

TR. To go on with anything: facere aliquid pergo: exsequi, especially persequi aliquid (to carry it through till the proposed end is reached: e.g., an undertaking, incepta exsequi or persequi: enmity, inimicitias persequi): alicui operi instare (to carry it on with activity and spirit): perseverare in re or with infinitive (to carry it on with pertinacity, perseverance: to continue the war, perseverare in bello or perseverare bellare: the siege, perseverare in obsidione): extendere (to lengthen; e.g., anything to midnight, aliquid ad mediam noctem; the battle to nightfall, pugnam ad noctem: Liv.): propagare (to prolong; e.g., anybody’s command for another year, propagare alicui imperium in annum, Liv.): producere (to draw out; to lengthen; e.g., sermonem in multam noctem): continuare or non intermittere aliquid (to carry or without interruption; e.g., opus, Caes.): ☞ Never use continuare unless the action has been uninterrupted: to continue after an interruption is pergere aliquid facere. “to continue a journey” may be iter continuare (Caes.), or iter non intermittere, if it is uninterrupted; but to continue it after a halt (= to resume it) must be pergere conficere iter reliquum (Cic.); iter persequi; to continue a drinking bout for two days and two nights, continuare perpotationem biduo duabusque noctibus (Plin.): to continue one’s studies, litterarum studia tenere, or persequi: to continue the war (Vid: perseverare above), bellum persequi or (after an interruption) bellum renovare, instaurare (Krebs after Dietrich). The work is continued without any intermission through the whole of the night, nulla pars nocturni temporis ad laborem intermittitur (Caes.): that the work might be continued without the slightest interruption, ne quod omnino tempus ab opere intermitteretur (Id.): Anything has been continued by anything up to this day, aliquid usque ad hoc tempus aliqua re continuatum permansit (Cic.): to continue a subject, ea, quae restant, persequi (Cic.). “The same subject continued” (as the heading of an article in a review, etc.), *res instituta porro tractatur or pertractatur (Vid: CONTINUATION).

To extend in an unbroken line (of extension in space), continuare (e.g., pontem, Tac., ; so Milton; “a bridge from Hell continued”): extendere (stretch out; e.g., of the lines of an army; cornua; aciem; agmen ad mare, Curt.).

To retain; to persevere in a custom, in the habitual performance of anything, etc., tenere; retinere: servare (all opposed to rejicere): to continue a barbarous custom, retinere (illam) immanem ac barbaram consuetudinem (e.g., hominum immolandorum, Cic.): you continue your old ways and character, morem antiquum atque ingenium obtines (Terentianus): to continue one’s kindness to anybody, *pergere benigne or comiter aliquem tracare; *pergere beneficia in aliquem conferre; *pergere benevolentiam alicui praestare; anybody continues his kindness to me, obtineo alicujus benevolentiam (gratiam, humanitatem, etc.); alicujus gratiam mihi retineo; alicujus benevolentiam tueor; to continue one’s intimacy with anybody, in consuetudine cum aliquo permanere.

INTR.,

To last; manere: permanere: durare: stare (to last long without being shaken or overthrown: regnum stetit, Liv., ; qui si steterit idem, Cic.): perstare (in the same sense as stare: nihil est toto, quod perstet, in orbe, Ov.): integram manere (to last without being injured, spoilt, etc.). [☞ Tenere, in the sense of “lasting,” occurs in Liv. only of the writers of the Golden Age: the rain continued all night, imber per totam noctem tenuit.] I am your fiend, and shall continue to be so, et sum et ero semper tibi amicus; *me semper tui studiosum habebis. If my health continues good, si sanitas constabit (Phaedrus): to continue long, diuturnum esse: the battle continued without any pause for five hours, horis quinque continenter pugnatum est. OBS., aliquid non intermittit may be followed by infinitive. The weather continues, year after year, to be fine at the proper season, non intermittit suo tempore caelum nitescere (Cic.).

Abide: manere (e.g., with anybody, apud aliquem): morari (e.g., hic; in provincia; Romae): commorari (e.g., at Rome, Romae; with anybody, apud aliquem; in those parts, circum isthaec loca): sustinere se in aliquo loco (to stop there, from thinking it dangerous to proceed, etc., till certain intelligence is obtained: Vid: Cic., 16, 2, in.).

To continue in anything: manere (e.g., in amicitia, voluntate, etc.): stare (to remain unshaken: stare in sententia, Liv.: also with ablative only; suis judiciis stare, Cic.): perstare (e.g., in sententia, Caes.; in incepto, Liv..): perseverare: constare (e.g., in sententia): consistere: persistere (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 5, 36).