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
- A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...noster melius ualeret, gemitus eiusmodi necessarios a calumnia defendisset et hanc, opinor, tibi quaestionem dissoluisset, me autem scis..." - G
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..." - M
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..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iram praedae amissae latrones, cum Romulus vi se defendisset, Remum cepisse, captum regi Amulio tradidisse, ultro accusantes. Crimini..." - P
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..."