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
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...ibat infitias fecisse, sed id solitum esse fieri defendebat turpitudinemque delicti exemplorum usu et consuetudinis venia deprecabatur..." - G
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..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quisque locupletissimus et iniuria validior, quia praesentia defendebat, pro bono ducebatur. Ex quo tempore maiorum mores non paulatim..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nihil ex his sponte susceptum, sed principi paruisse defendebat, donec eam orationem Caesar cohibuit, compertum sibi referens..."