defendebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defendo, defendere, defendi, defensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
defend/guard/protect, look after; act/speak/plead/write for defense; prosecute;; repel, fend/ward off, avert/prevent; support/preserve/maintain; defend (right);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...ibat infitias fecisse, sed id solitum esse fieri defendebat turpitudinemque delicti exemplorum usu et consuetudinis venia deprecabatur..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...flumen Nilum habebat. Maxima et electissima multitudo Alexandrinorum defendebat eam partem, quae facillimum aditum habebat; plurimum proficiebant..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quisque locupletissimus et iniuria validior, quia praesentia defendebat, pro bono ducebatur. Ex quo tempore maiorum mores non paulatim..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nihil ex his sponte susceptum, sed principi paruisse defendebat, donec eam orationem Caesar cohibuit, compertum sibi referens..."