defendens
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);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...remoto regiae sedis loco arcana tacitus nostra defendens specus. non ille primos accipit soles locus, non ille seros..." - G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...cognitione caedis Mediolani apud L. Pisonem proconsulem defendens reum, cum cohiberent lictores nimias laudantium voces, et ita excauduisset..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...formae pulchritudo sententiam dictat. Nam et Manium Aquilium defendens Antonius, cum scissa ueste cicatrices quas is pro patria..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...biberis diluta. foris est promus, et atrum defendens piscis hiemat mare: cum sale panis latrantem stomachum bene leniet..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...utraque regiis tenebantur praesidiis. itaque si sua intrepidus defendens primam speciem adpropinquantis terroris sustinuisset, neque receptus Romanis..."