defenduntur
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);
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...enim cuncta, non quia aeterna sunt, sed quia defenduntur cura regentis: immortalia tutore non egerent. Haec conservat artifex..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...cohortibus, quae erant in statione ad portas, defenduntur. Quibus rebus confectis flens Petreius manipulos circumit militesque appellat..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...facile anteibant: nunc pax et concordia disturbantur palam, defenduntur occulte; quibus illa placent in armis sunt..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...numeros commeare. Hi ritus quoquo modo inducti antiquitate defenduntur: cetera instituta, sinistra foeda, pravitate valuere. Nam pessimus quisque..."