tĕnor (noun M) : teneo, II. B.
* A holding on, holding fast; hence, an uninterrupted course, career, tenor (mostly post-Aug.; cf.: cursus, ordo).
* In gen.: hasta fugit servatque cruenta tenorem, keeps its course, Verg. A. 10, 340: (aulaea) placido educta tenore Tota patent,by a steady motion,Ov. M. 3, 113: hic tibi versandus tenor est,id. A. A. 2, 729: interrumpere tenorem rerum,Liv. 41, 15, 7: pugnae,id. 8, 38, 11: tenorem pugnae servabant,id. 30, 18: tenor vitae,Ov. H. 17, 14; Liv. 40, 12, 7: fati,Ov. H. 7, 112: eundem tenorem servare,Col. Arb. 2, 2: unus tenor algoris aestūsve,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 27: eodem tenore duo insequentes consulatus gessi,Liv. 7, 40, 9; cf.: eodem consiliorum tenore,id. 22, 15, 1: uno et perpetuo tenore juris semper usurpato, numquam intermisso,id. 35, 16; austeritatis (in smaragdis),Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 67: tenorem in narrationibus servant,connection,Quint. 10, 7, 6: cum quantum, quale interrogantes gravi, comparantes acuto tenore concludunt,i. e. tone, accent,id. 1, 5, 26; cf. in plur.: adhuc difficilior observatio est per tenores vel accentus,id. 1, 5, 22; cf. § 26: vel heroos gressu truncare tenores,i. e. mingle pentameters with heroic verses,Stat. S. 5, 3, 99.
* Adverb.: uno tenore, in one course or direction, uninterruptedly, uniformly: isque (stilus medius) uno tenore, ut aiunt, in dicendo fluit, * Cic. Or. 6, 21: brevis profecto res est, si uno tenore peragitur,Liv. 5, 5, 7: uno tenore fidem colere,id. 22, 37, 10: tenore uno in mediam aciem illati,id. 22, 47, 6; cf.: hi mores eaque caritas patriae per omnes ordines velut tenore uno pertinebat,id. 23, 49, 3: so, uno velut tenore,id. 2, 42, 8.
* In partic., in the later jurid. lang., the connection, contents, sense, tenor of a law: pro tenore legis Aquiliae,Dig. 9, 2, 56: pro tenore S C Claudiani,Paul. Sent. 2, 21, 18: auctorum verba emendare tenore sententiae perseverante, non est prohibitum,Dig. 42, 1, 46.