(verb) : dē-pugno, āvi, ātum, 1, and
* A.
* To fight eagerly, fight out; to contend, combat violently.
* Prop. (freq. and class.): collatis signis,Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 44; cf. Liv. 34, 46: acie instructā, * Caes, B. G. 7, 28: multi depugnant gemitusque edunt,Lucr. 4, 1015: haud procul moenibus,Liv. 10, 37; cf. id. 34, 46; 40, 34: adversus aliquem,Front. Strat. 2, 4, 6 et saep.: Torquatus cum Gallo apud Anienem depugnavit,Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73: ad depugnandum,Nep. Them. 4, 4; so of single combat,Cic. Tusc. 4, 22; id. Fin. 2, 22, 73; Suet. Caes. 39; and as a t. t. of gladiatorial combats,id. ib. 2, 17 fin.; Asin. Pollio, ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Quint. 8, 5, 12 Spald.; in the latter sense also with an object: feram,Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 6; cf. bestias,ib. 48, 8, 11.—Pass. impers.: ante depugnabitur,Cic. Att. 16, 11, 6: so, depugnarier,Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 36: depugnatum est,Liv. 7, 26; 9, 39.
* To fight to the end, stop fighting: depugnato proelio, 'the day after the fair,' Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 31.

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