defendisset
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...noster melius ualeret, gemitus eiusmodi necessarios a calumnia defendisset et hanc, opinor, tibi quaestionem dissoluisset, me autem scis..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...nobilem iuvenem, cum adversus Hiempsalem regem tam enixe defendisset, ut Iubae regis filio in altercatione barbam invaserit, stipendiarium..."Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...hoste venire. Ita hic si fuisset orator, non defendisset eundem Rufinum vel manifesti peculatus reum? XLIV. Multa dici..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iram praedae amissae latrones, cum Romulus vi se defendisset, Remum cepisse, captum regi Amulio tradidisse, ultro accusantes. Crimini..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...sectam professo, quod manifestum reum ambitiosius quam honestius defendisset: ipsi Publio neque animus in periculis neque oratio suppeditavit..."