defendisse
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);
perf. act. infin.
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...modo id luci fecissent neque se telo defendissent; servos item furti manifesti prensos verberibus adfici et e saxo..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...dedisse potentis populi ciuitatem, in quatuordecim deduxisse et defendisse capitis reum; quid utilia suasisse? quid retinuisse..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...opere cuperent, quandoque optimatium partibus, quas secum simul defendissent, exitio futurum; nam Caesari multos Marios inesse. Stipendia prima..."Terence
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...usus est sine superbia." Videtur autem se levius defendisse, quia sciebat et Laelio et Scipioni non ingratam esse..."de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...inductis simul publicis privatisque causis multorum inimicitiis susceptis defendisse. Suo item consulatu absentem quae potuisset commoda provinciae tribuisse..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...clausis portis muros portarumque turris dispositi armati defendissent, uano cum incepto moenibus pepulissent Romanos: nunc porta egressi proelium..."Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Maronitarum exules uenerant, pulsi, quia libertatis causam defendissent ab regio praesidio: ii non Maroneam modo sed etiam Aenum..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cecidisse, ceteros pauentis intra uallum compulsos aegre castra defendisse et in modum fugientium magnis itineribus in agrum pacatum..."