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
- A
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...modo id luci fecissent neque se telo defendissent; servos item furti manifesti prensos verberibus adfici et e saxo..." - L
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...clausis portis muros portarumque turris dispositi armati defendissent, uano cum incepto moenibus pepulissent Romanos: nunc porta egressi proelium..." - T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Maronitarum exules uenerant, pulsi, quia libertatis causam defendissent ab regio praesidio: ii non Maroneam modo sed etiam Aenum..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cecidisse, ceteros pauentis intra uallum compulsos aegre castra defendisse et in modum fugientium magnis itineribus in agrum pacatum..."