Cicero Tusculan Disputations 4: All of Anacreon's making of poetry is amorous.") An explanation of the terms poema and poesis by Jacobus Pontanus in his Poeticarum institutionum libri tres, 1594 (Caput VII, Quid
distent poema et poesis 1920), summarizes Renaissance usage and understanding.
Once he reaches the summit, we can catch a glimpse of the kind of view Petrarch is experiencing: Dirigo dehinc oculorum radios ad partes italicas, quo magis inclinat animus; Alpes ipse rigentes ac nivose, per quas ferus ille quodam hostis romani nominis transivit, aceto, si fame credimus, saxa perrumpens, iuxta michi vise sunt, cure tamen magno
distent intervallo.
It conducts neuronal signals from the nerve cell to
distent targets in the body, such as muscles, organs, or other nerves.